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What is the noun for crabby?

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crab
  1. The crab apple or wild apple.
  2. The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
  3. A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
  4. A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
  5. A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
  6. A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
  7. A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “My neighbor has turned into such a crab lately, always finding something to complain about.”
crab
  1. A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
  2. A bad-tempered person.
  3. (in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
  4. (slang) A playing card with the rank of three.
  5. (rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
  6. A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “My neighbor has turned into such a crab lately, always finding something to complain about.”
crabapple
  1. Any of the wild species of apple tree, genus Malus, which generally yield small, bitter fruit (in comparison to domestic apples, Malus domestica).
  2. The fruit of this tree.
  3. An unpleasant person; a person who is crabby.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “These trees, including many varieties of crabapple, hawthorn, pear, mountain ash, flowering quince, and pyracantha, should be pruned during the dormant season.”
      “The plantation of daffodils and tulips are very successful as well as the crabapple trees and lilacs.”
      “Children would sneak close to the crabapple tree, but, like the Vamp, they'd never go under it.”
crabbing
  1. The act or art of catching crabs.
  2. (falconry) The fighting of hawks with each other.
  3. (wool manufacture) A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine.
crabfish
  1. (archaic) A freshwater crab found in Southern European rivers, streams, and lakes, Potamon fluviatile or Cancer fluviatilis.
  2. (archaic) A lobster or crayfish.
crabstick
  1. A cudgel, originally made of the wood of a crabapple tree, hence any similar club.
  2. A crabby, ill-tempered person.
  3. Examples:
    1. “I have told you the whole story, as it has been told to me by the woman crabstick.”
      “Mrs. J. Oh, Mrs. crabstick, cheer up, just when we've come to such a nice tea-party.”
      “He told Toney that old crabstick was dead and that he must go home.”
crabber
  1. A person who catches crabs.
  2. (nautical) A boat used for catching crabs.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Rick could see the boat, but the angle was wrong for him to see the crabber at work.”
      “Consequently when we came in sight of the crabber we signalled for our share of his catch.”
      “A crabber is Florida's latest casualty of the flesh-eating bacteria Vibrio Vulnificus.”
crabstick
  1. A processed food, made of surimi to somewhat resemble the legs of a crab.
  2. Examples:
    1. “I have told you the whole story, as it has been told to me by the woman crabstick.”
      “Mrs. J. Oh, Mrs. crabstick, cheer up, just when we've come to such a nice tea-party.”
      “He told Toney that old crabstick was dead and that he must go home.”
crabburger
  1. A burger made with crab instead of beef.
crabhole
  1. A small burrow dug by a crab.
crab
crabbedness
  1. The state or quality of being crabbed.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The story of a change in a character from arrogance, crabbedness, to that of humility always has appeal.”
      “Both father and son, in their crabbedness, may be recessionary personalities.”
      “The crabbedness of old age or misfortune was evidently looked upon as witchcraft.”
crabmeat
  1. The meat of a crab.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Seven minutes after sitting down, our first steamer of crabmeat and pork soup dumplings arrived.”
      “Upside-down mushroom caps brimmed with unadulterated lump crabmeat and swam in a mild wine sauce.”
      “In a scallop shell, arrange crabmeat, razor clam, mussels, scallop and honeydew melon.”
crab
crabling
  1. A small, young, or baby crab.
crabbiness
  1. The state of being crabby
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Anticipatory exam dread and its accompanying crabbiness seem to have arrived exceptionally early this year.”
      “But as a natural actor, Murray betrays the sincerity and sensitivity that's being shielded by the crabbiness.”
      “Christmas is my season of rising goodwill, a time when I shed my carapace of crabbiness and embrace humanity.”
crablet
  1. A young crab.
crabs
crabbednesses
crabburgers
  1. plural of crabburger
crabsticks
  1. plural of crabstick
crabapples
crabholes
  1. plural of crabhole
crabmeats
  1. plural of crabmeat
crablings
  1. plural of crabling
crabfishes
  1. plural of crabfish
crablets
  1. plural of crablet
crabbers
  1. plural of crabber
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