Hypertext Webster Gateway: "crabbed"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Crabbed \Crab"bed\ (kr?b"b?d), a. [See {Crab},n.]
1. Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or
moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings,
disposition, or manners.
Crabbed age and youth can not live together. --Shak.
2. Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; --
applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.
3. Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed
author. ``Crabbed eloquence.'' --Chaucer.
How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and
crabbed, as dull fools suppose. --Milton.
4. Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting. --
{Crab"bed*ly}, adv. -- {Crab"bed*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
crabbed
adj : perversely irritable [syn: {crabby}, {cross}, {fussy}, {grouchy},
{grumpy}, {bad-tempered}, {ill-tempered}]
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