(ת') מר-נפש; מעורפל

(פ') לצוד סרטנים; להתאונן

adj. irritable, grouchy; hard to understand; illegible

v. complain; criticize; fish for crabs

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Adjective
1. perversely irritable
(synonym) crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered
(similar) ill-natured

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Noun
1. decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
(hypernym) decapod crustacean, decapod
(hyponym) stone crab, Menippe mercenaria
(member-holonym) Brachyura, suborder Brachyura
2. a quarrelsome grouch
(synonym) crabby person
(hypernym) grouch, grump, crank, churl, crosspatch
(derivation) gripe, grouse, beef, squawk, bellyache, holler
3. the edible flesh of any of various crabs
(synonym) crabmeat
(hypernym) shellfish
(hyponym) blue crab
(part-holonym) crab cocktail
4. infests the pubic region of the human body
(synonym) crab louse, pubic louse, Phthirius pubis
(hypernym) louse, sucking louse
(member-holonym) Phthirius, genus Phthirius, Phthirus, genus Phthirus
5. a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply; "he caught a crab and lost the race"
(hypernym) rowing, row

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Verb
1. direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
(hypernym) steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, point, head, guide, channelize, channelise
(classification) air travel, aviation, air
2. scurry sideways like a crab
(hypernym) scurry, scamper, skitter, scuttle
3. fish for crab
(hypernym) fish
4. complain; "What was he hollering about?"
(synonym) gripe, grouse, beef, squawk, bellyache, holler
(hypernym) complain, kick, plain, sound off, quetch, kvetch
(derivation) crabby person

(n.)
Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author.
  

(n.)
Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting.
  

(n.)
Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners.
  

(n.)
Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; -- applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.
  

adj.
1. sour, harsh
کھٹّا, ترش, چڑچڑا, کڑا, سخت, تند, چِن چنا
Ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed. (Shakespeare 'Tempest' iii. 1)
باپ جتنا کہ ترش رو ہيگا اس سے دہ چند وہ نيک خو ہيگا F.C.2. difficult
کٹھن, بھاري, دوبھر, دشوار, پيچ دار, دقيق, ٹيڑھي کھير, مشکل
She had sat up of nights conning lessons and spelling over crabbed grammers and geography books in order to teach them to Georgy. (Thackeray, 'Vanity Fair')
وہ راتوں کو بيٹھ کر جارجي کے پڑھانے کے واسطے سبق ديکھتي اور جغرافيہ اور پيچ دار صرف و نحو کي کتابوں کا مطالعہ کرتيcrabbed writing
بد خط, کيڑے مکوڑے, کيل کانٹا, مکوڑے کي سي ٹانگيں, لکيريں

Synonyms and related words:
Byzantine, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acescent, anile, balled up, bearish, beyond one, bitchy, blunt, brusque, cankered, cantankerous, choleric, churlish, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, convoluted, crab, cramp, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crusty, cussed, daedal, debilitated, decrepit, devious, difficult, disagreeable, doddered, doddering, doddery, dour, dry, elaborate, embrangled, entangled, excitable, feeble, feisty, fossilized, fouled up, fractious, garbled, gerontal, gerontic, gloomy, glum, green, gruff, hard, hard to understand, huffish, huffy, implicated, infirm, intricate, involuted, involved, irascible, irritable, jumbled, knotted, knotty, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, loused up, many-faceted, matted, mazy, mean, meandering, messed up, mixed up, morose, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mucked up, multifarious, mummylike, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, ornery, overtechnical, palsied, papery-skinned, perplexed, perverse, pickled, pungent, ramified, ravaged with age, rickety, roundabout, run to seed, rusty, saturnine, scrambled, screwed up, sec, senile, shaky, shriveled, snappish, snarled, sour, sour as vinegar, soured, sourish, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, stricken in years, subtle, sulky, surly, tangled, tangly, tart, tartish, testy, timeworn, tottering, tottery, tough, twisted, ugly, unripe, unsweet, unsweetened, vinegarish, vinegary, waspish, weak, withered, wizened,