crabstick

See also: crab stick

English

Alternative forms

• crab-stick, crab stick

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

From crab (“wild apple”) +‎ stick.

Noun

crabstick (plural crabsticks)

1. (now rare) A cudgel, originally made of the wood of a crabapple tree, hence any similar club.
   • 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. VI, letter 106:

     [O]ne of them who appeared to have the most spirit had a knotted crab-stick in his hand, and insisted that the Irishman should not leave the company, till he had first given satisfaction for the insult he had committed on them all.

2. (obsolete) A crabby, ill-tempered person.

Translations

cudgel

crabby person

Etymology 2

crabsticks

From crab (“crustacean”) +‎ stick.

Noun

crabstick (plural crabsticks)

1. A processed food, made of surimi to somewhat resemble the legs of a crab.

Synonyms

• imitation crab stick
• crab surimi stick
• sea legs

Translations

processed seafood

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 仿蟹柳

  Mandarin: 蟹肉棒 (zh) (xièròubàng), 蟳味棒／𫊻味棒 (xúnwèibàng), 蟹柳 (xièliǔ)

• Czech: krabí tyčinky
• Finnish: surimipuikko
• Indonesian: stik kepiting
• Japanese: カニカマ
• Korean: 게맛살 (gematsal)
• Russian: крабовые палочки f pl (krabovyje paločki)
• Thai: ปูอัด (th) (bpuu-àt)
• Ukrainian: крабові палички (krabovi palyčky)

References

• Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of the English Language. International Edition. combined with Britannica World Language Dictionary. Chicago-London etc., Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc., 1965.