scrubby

English

Etymology

scrub +‎ -y

Adjective

scrubby (comparative scrubbier, superlative scrubbiest)

1. Covered with or consisting of scrub.
2. Inferior in size or quality.
   • 1883, Hargrave Jennings, The Childishness and Brutality of the Time:

     This sort of literary slop-work will not suffice for your walking in the roads of life to any good purpose. It is bad work. It is scrubby work.

Translations

covered with scrub

• Bulgarian: обрасъл с храсти (obrasǎl s hrasti)
• Finnish: pensaikkoinen, pusikkoinen
• Swedish: snårig (sv), risig (sv)

inferior in size or quality

• Bulgarian: недорасъл (bg) (nedorasǎl)
• Finnish: kitukasvuinen (fi), pienikokoinen (fi) (inferior in size); huono (fi), surkea (fi), kurja (fi) (inferior in quality)