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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)
- 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.
- Her wrizled skin, as rough as maple rind,
- 1590, 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
- Diseased with the scab, or mange; mangy.
- (printing) Having a blotched, uneven appearance.
- 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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scabbiness
English
Etymology
scabby +? -ness
Noun
scabbiness (uncountable)
- The property of being scabby, of having or being covered with scabs.
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