[krabd], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- (of handwriting) very small and difficult to decipher
(e.g: his handwriting is crabbed and hideous)

- bad-tempered
(e.g: a crabbed, unhappy middle age)


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Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘perverse, wayward’): from crab, because of the crab's sideways gait and habit of snapping