I'm tired of listening to his 'crabbing' about the weather.
He's been 'crabbing' about the weather all afternoon.
I don't know why she's been such a 'crab' lately.
(..) though I most powerfully and potently believe it... ...yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down For you yourself, sir, could grow as old as I am, if like a crab you could go backwards Though this be madness, yet there is method in it - Will you walk out of the air, my lord? (..)2015 Hamlet