crabbing
Meaning of crabbing
- move sideways or obliquely.
he began crabbing sideways across the roof
- fish for crabs.
watermen were crabbing on the bay
Old English crabba, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch krabbe, and more distantly to Dutch kreeft and German Krebs ; also to crab3.
verb, gerund or present participle- grumble about something petty.
on picnics, I would crab about sand in my food
- act so as to spoil (something).
you're trying to crab my act
late 16th century (referring to hawks, meaning ‘claw or fight each other’): from Low German krabben ; related to crab1.
Information about crabbing
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of crabbing is: crabbings.
- Languages in which crabbing is used:
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Hyphenation of crabbing
crab-bing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- crabbing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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