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scabby

English

Etymology

From Middle English scabby, scabbie, equivalent to scab +? -y. Doublet of shabby.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?skæb.i/
  • Rhymes: -æbi

Adjective

scabby (comparative scabbier, superlative scabbiest)

  1. Affected with scabs; full of scabs.
    • 1590, 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
      Her wrizled skin, as rough as maple rind,
      So scabby was, that would have loath'd all womankind.
  2. Diseased with the scab, or mange; mangy.
  3. (printing) Having a blotched, uneven appearance.
  4. Injured by the attachment of barnacles to the carapace of a shell.

Synonyms

  • (affected with scabs): reef, scabrous; see also Thesaurus:scabby

Translations

References

  • scabby in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • scabby in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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scabbily

English

Etymology

scabby +? -ly

Adverb

scabbily (comparative more scabbily, superlative most scabbily)

  1. In a scabby manner; in a low, base or mean way.

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