crab
/kɹæb/ verb C2- To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
He/she/it crabs · Past crabbed · Past participle crabbed · -ing form crabbing
Verb forms
- Base form
- crab
- He/she/it
- crabs
- Past
- crabbed
- Past participle
- crabbed
- -ing form
- crabbing
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## The Crab and Its Mother
A CRAB said to her son, “Why do you walk so one-sided, my child?
It is far more becoming to go straight forward.” The young Crab replied: “Quite true, dear Mother; and if you will show me the straight way, I will promise to walk in it.” The Mother tried in vain, and submitted without remonstrance to the reproof of her child.
## The Crab and the Fox
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