Reverse Dictionary: CRABBED

ADJECTIVES
​► AZZLED crabbed; sour; churlish → 1881 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CALSHIE crabbed, ill-humoured, surly, rude → 1790 Sc.
► CANKERED crabbed, ill-natured, spiteful; ill-tempered → 1513
► CANKERLY crabbed, ill-natured, spiteful; ill-tempered → 1580 obs.
► CANKEROUS crabbed, ill-humoured → 1580
► CANKERSOME crabbed, bad-tempered, cross-grained → 1855 Sc.
► CANKERY crabbed, ill-humoured → 1786 Sc.
► CAPERNOITED crabbed, irritable, peevish; snappish; ill-natured, fractious → 1719 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► CAPERNOITY crabbed, irritable, peevish; slightly affected in the head by drinking, muddle-headed, wrong-headed → 1769 Sc.
► CAPPIT crabbed, ill-humoured, quarrelsome, touchy → 1742 Sc.
► CRABBISH cross, crabbed → 1485 obs.
► CROUSE angry, irate, cross, crabbed → 1400 obs. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► GARMUNSHOCH crabbed, ill-humoured → 1825 Sc.
► GNATTERIE ► NATTERIE ► NITTERIE ► NITTERY crabbed, peevish, cantankerous, irascible, given to sharp caustic talk → 1825 Sc.
► GROUTY crabbed, grumpy, irritable, sulky, cross, surly, peevish, sullen, ill-tempered, ill-natured → 1836 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► GURLIE ► GURLY crabbed, surly, cross, growly, ill-humoured, bad-tempered, sour-tempered → 1721 Sc.
► HAZLED crabbed, surly, sour, churlish → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ILL-RUN crabbed, cantankerous → 1880 Sc.
► KELSHIE crabbed, surly → 1833 Sc. obs.
► RUBARBATIVE crabbed, cross-grained, bad-tempered, ill-natured → 1600 obs.
► SNUDGE crabby, mean, miserly → 1855 Eng. dial.
► TARN’D crabbed, ill-natured, fierce → 1805 Eng. dial.
► TAUTIE crabbed, cross-grained → a1838 Sc.
► TEETHY crabbed, ill-tempered, peevish, cross; crabbed → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TETRICOUS crabbed, perverse, morose; sour in countenance; austere, severe, harsh → 1727 obs.
► THAWART crabbed, cross; obstinate; forward → 1901 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► THRISSLY ► THRISTLY crabbed, testy → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► VINAIGROUS crabbed, peevish, morose; ill-tempered, unamiable → 1837
► WRAW crabbed, peevish, perverse → c1386 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► WRAWFUL crabbed, peevish, ill-tempered; perverse, contrarious → c1386 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► ZOWER-ZAPPED crabbed, ill-natured, sour in temper: usually applied to women → 19C Eng. dial.

NOUNS
► CANKEREDNESS crabbed temper; malice, spite; ill-humour → 1538

NOUNS – PERSON
► CRAB a crabbed, cross-grained, ill-tempered person → 1825
► CRAB-STICK a crabbed, disagreeable person; a bad-tempered, morose person or child → 1841
► CRANK a crabby person → 1833 colloq., orig. US
► GANGREL a crabbed, ill-tempered, crusty old man, rough, and churlish → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NATTER a crabbed, nagging person; a continual chatterer → 1908 Sc.
► NATTEREL a crabbed, nagging person; a continual chatterer → 1919 Sc.
► NIPSCART a crabbed, peevish, ill-tempered person → 1825 Sc.
► SOUR-SOP a crabbed, cross, or ill-natured person → 19C Eng. dial.
► TARRANT a crabbed, ill-natured person → 1703 Eng. dial.
► TEASTRIL a crabbed, peevish fellow; a vicious, ill-conditioned person → 1869 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► URF a crabbed or peevish person of a diminutive size → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► WIRR a crabbed, cantankerous, peevish, diminutive person → 1825 Sc.