crab
[verb]
Synonyms: gripe, beef, bellyache, bitch, bleat, crib, fuss, squawk, yammer, yawp (or yaup)
[noun]
Synonyms: grouch, bellyacher, complainer, crosspatch, faultfinder, griper, grouser, growler, grumbler, kicker

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Related Idioms: fret and fume

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

crab /kræb/ noun
[Sense 1-3: Language: Old English; Origin: crabba]
[Sense 4: Date: 1800-1900; Origin: crabbed]

1. [countable] a sea animal with a hard shell, five legs on each side, and two large claws ⇒ crustacean

2. [uncountable] the flesh of this animal that you can cook and eat:
crab meat
dressed crab (=prepared for eating)

3. crabs [plural] informal a medical condition in which a type of louse (=insect) is in the hair around sexual organs

4. [singular] American English informal someone who becomes annoyed easily about unimportant things

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲