Scalding vs Crabbed - What's the difference?
scalding | crabbed | Related terms |
Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
Cramped, bent.
* 1800(?) Robert Southey, Winter
(of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.
(crab)
Scalding is a related term of crabbed.
As adjectives the difference between scalding and crabbed
is that scalding is (of a liquid) hot enough to burn while crabbed is bad-tempered or cantankerous.As verbs the difference between scalding and crabbed
is that scalding is while crabbed is (crab).As a noun scalding
is an instance of scalding; a burn.crabbed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee,
- Old Winter, with a rugged beard as grey
- As the long moss upon the apple-tree;