scabby
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English scabby, scabbie, equivalent to scab + -y. Doublet of shabby.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
scabby (comparative scabbier, superlative scabbiest)
- Affected with scabs; full of scabs.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Her wrizled skin, as rough as maple rind,
So scabby was, that would have loath'd all womankind.
- 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 edit
- (affected with scabs): reef, scabrous; see also Thesaurus:scabby
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
full of scabs
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diseased with scab
References edit
- “scabby”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “scabby”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.