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Definition of Crabbily
1. crabby [adv] - See also: crabby
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crabbily
Literary usage of Crabbily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"To speak " crabbily." [General.] " He nearly CRABBED my head off." CRAB WORT.
sb. Sour cider. CRACKS. " I can't tell no CRACKS of myself," means that I ..."
2. A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester by J[ohn] Drummond Robertson (1890)
"To speak " crabbily." [General.] " He nearly CRABBED my head off." CRAB WORT.
s&. Sour cider. CRACKS. " I can't tell no CRACKS of myself," means that I ..."
3. Featherland, or, How the birds lived at Greenlawn by George Manville Fenn (1866)
"said his mate crabbily. ' Why, look at those nasty little feather-balls peedle-weed-
ling ; who can put up with it? They've no business there at all. ..."
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