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crabbily

[krab-ee] Origin

crab·by

[krab-ee]
adjective, -bi·er, -bi·est.
Informal. grouchy; ill-natured; irritable; peevish.

Origin:
1540–50; crab3 + -y1

crab·bi·ly, adverb
crab·bi·ness, noun
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Crabbily is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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Word Origin & History

crabby
1520s, in obs. sense "crooked, gnarled, rough," from extended sense of crab. Meaning "disagreeable, sour, peevish" is attested from 1776, Amer.Eng. Both senses were found earlier in crabbed (c.1510 and c.1300 respectively).
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