crab

Mane (English)

Noun

1. A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
2. The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
3. A bad-tempered person.
4. (informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
5. The angle by which an aircraft's nose is pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing; its crab angle.
6. (slang) A playing card with the rank of three.
7. A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
8. A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
9. An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.

Verb

1. To fish for crabs.
2. (slang) To ruin.
3. To complain.
4. To complain about.
5. To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
6. To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
7. To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
8. To move (a camera) sideways.
9. (obsolete) to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.
10. To back out of something.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour
2. To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
3. To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick

Synonyms

lobster

🦞

crayfish

crab louse

pubic louse

Cancer

♋

crabmeat

grouse

crabby person

beef

Phthirius pubis

hermit crab

holler

mud crab

squawk

criticize

bellyache

carp

bitch

crawfish

Brachyura

gripe

cancer

♋

large

kvetch

nag

niggle

nudge

pan

purchase

🛍️

reel

ruin

saddle

scarify

score

scratch

shellfish

spoil

troublemaker

trouble maker

troubler

upbraid

whim

whine

yaw

crabwood

cry down

Astacus

Old World crayfish

ecrevisse

scranch

crane carriage

criticize adversely

cable stock

noodge

animadvert

fish crab

bad hat

bruise

capstan

cavil

censure

claw

crabs

crane

crawdad

crosspatch

decry

discomfort

drift

edible crab

etc.

fry

general term

gin

grizzle

grouch

heller

inconvenience

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/kɹæb/

Etîmolojî (English)

Inherited from Middle English: crabbe

Inherited from Old English: crabba

Cognate with holendî: krab

Cognate with Saterfriesisch: krabbelje

Cognate with holendî: krabbelen

Cognate with almanî: krabbeln

Cognate with îngilîzî: creep

Cognate with swêdî: krypa

In summary

From Middle English crabbe, from Old English crabba (“crab; crayfish; cancer”), from Proto-West Germanic *krabbō, from Proto-Germanic *krabbô, from *krabbōną (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *grobʰeh₂yéti (“scratch, claw at”), a metathesised o-grade of *gerbʰ-. More at carve.
Cognates
See also Dutch krab, Low German Krabb, Danish krabbe, Swedish krabba.
Further cognates with frequentative-infix are Saterland Frisian krabbelje (“to creep, crawl”), Dutch krabbelen (“to scratch”) and German krabbeln (“to crawl”). Possibly related to English creep and Swedish krypa (“to creep, crawl”) etc.