scabby
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈskæb.i/
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.
- (affected with scabs) reef, scabrous; see also Thesaurus:scabby
- French: croûteux
- Russian: шелуди́вый
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