a. Obs. [f. CRAB sb.1 + -ISH: cf. CRABBED.] Cross, crabbed.
c. 1485. Digby Myst. (1882), II. 91. Such crabyysh wordes do aske a blow.
a. 1592. Greene, Arbasto, iii. With a coy countenance, she gave me this crabbish answere.
1606. Dekker, Sev. Sinnes, iv. (Arb.), 34. Crabbish Satyristes.
