scabby

From Middle English scabby, scabbie, equivalent to scab +‎ -y. Doublet of shabby.

• IPA^(key): /ˈskæb.i/

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• Rhymes: -æbi

scabby (comparative scabbier, superlative scabbiest)

1. 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.

2. Diseased with the scab, or mange; mangy.
3. (printing) Having a blotched, uneven appearance.
4. Injured by the attachment of barnacles to the carapace of a shell.

• (affected with scabs): reef, scabrous; see also Thesaurus:scabby

• scabbily
• scabbiness
• scabby sheep

• “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.