Scottish or dialectal form meaning crabbed, irritable, or bad-tempered.
Scots English variant of 'crabbed,' which comes from Old Norse 'krabbi' (crab). The '-it' ending is common in Scots for adjectives.
Scots English has preserved older forms of English words that vanished from standard English—'crabit' shows how dialects are like language time capsules, holding onto medieval pronunciations.
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