| 词汇 | crabby |
| 词源 | crabby. Jacob Grimm contended that the German word Krabbe, from which our crabby ultimately derives, meaning “a cross, ill-tempered person,” owes its origin to the crab, “because these animals are malicious and do not easily let go of what they have.” But another authority has it that the primary refer- ence here is “to the crooked or wayward gait of the crustacean, and the contradictory, perverse and fractious disposition which this expresses.” |
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