crabbe

See also: Crabbe

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English crabba, from Proto-West Germanic *krabbō, from Proto-Germanic *krabbô.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkrab(ə)/

Noun

crabbe (plural crabbes or crabben)

  1. crab (kind of crustacean)
  2. A crayfish, lobster or similar crustacean.
  3. (astronomy) Cancer (constellation)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • English: crab
  • Scots: crab, craib
References

Etymology 2

Of Germanic origin, perhaps influenced by sense 1 or the adjective crabbed and altered from Scots and northern English scrab, of the same meaning, plausibly ultimately from North Germanic, cognate with Swedish dialect scrabba, krabbäpple.[1]

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkrab(ə)/, /ˈskrab(ə)/

Noun

crabbe (plural crabbes or crabben)

  1. A crabapple tree.
  2. A crabapple fruit.
Descendants
References
  1. Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Norman

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse krabbi.

Noun

crabbe f (plural crabbes)

  1. (Guernsey) crab
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