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crabby (adj.)
1520s, in now-obsolete sense "crooked, gnarled, rough," from extended sense of
crab
(n.1) +
-y
(2). Meaning "disagreeable, sour, peevish" is attested from 1776, American English. Both senses were found earlier in
crabbed
.
