scurvy (uncountable)

1. (disease) A disease caused by insufficient intake of vitamin C leading to the formation of livid spots on the skin, spongy gums, loosening of the teeth and bleeding into the skin and from almost all mucous membranes.

• (vitamin C deficiency disease) Barlow's disease, Cheadle-Möller-Barlow syndrome, Cheadle's disease, land scurvy, Moeller's disease, Möller-Barlow disease, scorbutus

• -scorbic
• scorbic
• ascorbic
• scorbutic

• French: scorbut
• German: Skorbut, Scharbock
• Italian: scorbuto
• Portuguese: (Brazil) escorbuto
• Russian: цинга́
• Spanish: escorbuto

scurvy (comparative scurvier, superlative scurviest)

1. Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Leviticus 21:18-20 ↗:

     whatsoever man […] be scurvy or scabbed

2. Contemptible, despicable, low, disgustingly mean.

   a scurvy trick; a scurvy knave

   • circa 1610-11 William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III scene ii:

     What a pied ninny's this! Thou scurvy patch!

   • 1709, Jonathan Swift, A Project for the Advancement of Religion and the Reformation of Manners

     […] that scurvy custom among the lads, and parent of the former, vice, taking tobacco

• (affected with scurf or scabs) roynish, scabrous; see also Thesaurus:scabby
• (contemptible) miserable, paltry, shabby; see also Thesaurus:despicable

• Italian: ignobile,spregevole, scorbutico
• Russian: ни́зкий