different between crablike vs criblike

crablike

English

Etymology

crab +? -like. In sense “moving sideways”, due to crab’s sideways walk.

Adjective

crablike (comparative more crablike, superlative most crablike)

  1. 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.
  2. Walking or moving sideways

Translations

See also

  • sidle

Anagrams

  • bark lice, barklice

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criblike

English

Etymology

crib +? -like

Adjective

criblike (comparative more criblike, superlative most criblike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a crib.

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