crablike
English
Etymology
crab + -like. In sense “moving sideways”, due to crab’s sideways walk.
Adjective
crablike (comparative more crablike, superlative most crablike)
- Having some characteristics of a crab
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:
- It was in this stream, I recalled from newspaper items, that one of the morbid crablike beings had been seen floating after the floods.
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:
- Walking or moving sideways
Translations
having some characteristics of a crab
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