crabbed en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /kɹæbd/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Middle English crabbed; equivalent to crab + -ed.
Meanings
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Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
[…]O, she is / Ten times more gentle than her father's crabb'd, / And he's composed of harshness.
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
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Cramped, bent.
A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee, Old Winter, with a rugged beard as grey As the long moss upon the apple-tree; […]
c. 1800, Robert Southey, Winter:
- (of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.
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(of an aircraft) Pointed at an angle to the runway during approach and landing to compensate for a crosswind.
Unlike most aircraft, the B-52's fully-steerable landing gear allows it to land crabbed and stay crabbed throughout rollout without destroying its tires.
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(of an approach and landing) Performed with one's aircraft pointed at an angle to the runway to compensate for a crosswind; performed with nonzero crab.
The Ercoupe can't be cross-controlled, so it has to make a crabbed approach in a crosswind rather than using the sideslip technique.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most crabbed | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more crabbed | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
crabbedness · uncrabbed · crabbedly
Translations (8)
bg свадлив (bad-tempered or cantankerous) · pl opryskliwy (bad-tempered or cantankerous) · ru неразбо́рчивый ((of handwriting) crowded together and difficult to read) · bg раздразнителен (bad-tempered or cantankerous) · pl drobny ((of handwriting) crowded together and difficult to read) · bg нечетлив ((of handwriting) crowded together and difficult to read) · pl zrzędny (bad-tempered or cantankerous) · bg неразбираем ((of handwriting) crowded together and difficult to read)