Crabbiest vs Drabbiest - What's the difference?
crabbiest | drabbiest |
(crabby)
visibly irritated or annoyed; grouchy, irritable, in a foul mood; given to complaining or finding fault in an annoyed way.
crabbed; difficult, or perplexing.
(drabby)
pale, lacking color.
* {{quote-book, year=1889, author=Allan O. Hume, title=The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The ground-colour is a pale drabby stone-colour, and all about the large end is a broad dense zone of dull brownish purple. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1921, author=William Patterson White, title=The Heart of the Range, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Oh, there was no warmth in the sunlight, and the sky was a drabby gray, and he was filled with bitterness unutterable. " }}
As adjectives the difference between crabbiest and drabbiest
is that crabbiest is (crabby) while drabbiest is (drabby).crabbiest
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(head)crabby
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(er)Derived terms
* crabbily * crabbiness * crabdrabbiest
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Adjective
(head)drabby
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