crabber

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who catches crabs.
    — Many shrimpers complain that the crabbers place their traps too close together and that they can't go between the traps without snagging their nets.
  2. A person who finds fault or criticizes.
    — There were one or two crabbers, of course—people who wanted his job—but no one paid any attention to the likes of them.
  3. A boat used for catching crabs.
    — In the bright haze of morning they came into Hort Harbor, where a hundred craft were moored or setting forth: fishermen's boats, crabbers, trawlers, trading-ships, two galleys of twenty oars […]

词形变化

crabbers plural crabbers plural

词源

词源 1
From crab (“crustacean having five pairs of legs”) + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (relational noun suffix).
词源 2
Etymology tree
English crab
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English crabber
From crab (“to be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault”) + -er.
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