crabby person

1. 1.

   a quarrelsome grouch

   Synonymscrab

   Broadergrouch

Questions about crabby person

What does crabby person mean?

crabby person means "a quarrelsome grouch".

What is another word for crabby person?

Close synonyms include crab. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crabby person a common word?

crabby person is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.