CRAB


Meaning of CRAB in English

n. 1 (in full crab-apple) a small sour apple-like fruit. 2 (in full crab tree or crab-apple tree) any of several trees bearing this fruit. 3 a sour person.

[ ME, perh. alt. (after CRAB(1) or CRABBED) of earlier scrab, prob. of Scand. orig. ]

Concise Oxford English dictionary.      Краткий оксфордский словарь английского языка.