adj. 1 irritable or morose. 2 (of handwriting) ill-formed and hard to decipher. 3 perverse or cross-grained. 4 difficult to understand. crabbedly adv. crabbedness n.
[ ME f. CRAB(1), assoc. with CRAB(2) ]
CRABBED
Meaning of CRABBED in English
Concise Oxford English dictionary. Краткий оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2012