Adjacent Words

Scabby definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SCAB'BY, a. [from scab.]
1. Affected with scabs; full of scabs.
2. Diseased with the scab or mange; mangy.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: covered with scabs

Merriam Webster's

adjective (scabbier; -est) Date: 15th century 1. a. covered with or full of scabs <scabby skin> b. diseased with scab <a scabby animal> <scabby potatoes> 2. mean, contemptible <a scabby trick>

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Scabby Scab"by, a. [Compar. Scabbier; superl. Scabbiest.] 1. Affected with scabs; full of scabs. 2. Diseased with the scab, or mange; mangy. --Swift.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If a person, an animal, or a part of their body is scabby, it has scabs on it. He had short trousers and scabby knees. ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

abject, abominable, arrant, asperous, atrocious, barfy, base, beggarly, blemished, checked, cheesy, cicatrized, contemptible, cracked, crappy, crazed, crummy, debased, defaced, defective, deformed, degraded, depraved, despicable, dirty, disfigured, disgusting, distorted, execrable, faulty, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, flagrant, flaky, flawed, flocculent, flyblown, foul, fulsome, furfuraceous, gloppy, grave, gross, gunky, heinous, icky, keloidal, kinked, lentiginous, lepidote, little, low, low-down, lumpen, maggoty, malodorous, mangy, marred, mean, measly, mephitic, miserable, monstrous, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, obnoxious, odious, ordurous, paltry, petty, pimpled, pimply, poky, poor, puky, putrid, rank, reptilian, repulsive, rotten, scabbed, scabious, scabrous, scaly, scarified, scarred, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurfy, scurvy, shabby, shitty, shoddy, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, small, split, sposhy, squalid, squamous, twisted, unmentionable, vile, vomity, warped, wormy, wretched, yecchy