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Definition: Scabby |
ScabbyAdjective1. Covered with scabs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scabby" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Note: Scabby \Scab"by\, adjective. [Comparative Scabbier; superlative Scabbiest.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | In founding, blistered or marred with scabs; said of a casting. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Improbity | Contemptible, unrespectable, abject, mean, shabby, little, paltry, dirty, scurvy, scabby, sneaking, groveling, scrubby, rascally, pettifogging; beneath one. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Scabby |
| English words defined with "scabby": Ronyon, Roynish ♦ Scabbily, Scabbiness, Scall, Scalled. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "scabby": Scalled. (references) |
| "Scabby" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Scabby" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 21 | 76,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "scabby": become scabby. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "scabby": scabby-looking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
scabby | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "scabby"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zgjebanik (mangy, scurfy), me zgjebe (mangy, scabious), me dregëza, i zgjebosur (mangy). (various references) | |
Arabic | وضيع (contemptible, cowardly, grubby, humble, inferior, low, low-grade, lowly, mean, menial, scaly, scruffy, scurvy, slavish, slight, snide, vile), حقير (abject, base, beggarly, blackguardly, cheap, despicable, dingy, dirty, frowzy, grubby, ignoble, inferior, insignificant, lousy, low, low down, lowly, mean, menial, niggling, paltry, pettifogger, petty, pip squeak, pitiable, pitiful, poor, popinjay, rotten, scaly, scoundrelly, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, servile, shabby, shoddy, slavish, slim, slushy, small minded, snide, sod, squalid, swine, tacky, trifling, ungracious, unworthy, varmint, vile, villainous, worthless, wretched), الأجرب, أجرب (mangy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сърбящ, крастав (itchy, mangy, scabbed, scabious), никакъв (no, none, null, punk, putrid, scabbed, shabby), жалък (abject, lamentable, mangy, miserable, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, pokey, poor, sad, scabbed, scaly, scrubby, sorrowful, sorry, squalid, woeful), покрит със струпеи. (various references) | |
Chinese | 鬎 (bald), 鬁 (bald). (various references) | |
Czech | všivý (lousy). (various references) | |
Danish | skorpet uld (scabby wool), tvillingemaerker (scabby area), baenkebider (scabby sow bug, slater, sow bug, wood louse, woodlouse). (various references) | |
Dutch | schurftige wol (scabby wool), varkensbeest (scabby sow bug, slater, woodlouse), pissebed (scabby sow bug, slater, sow bug, wood louse, woodlouse), keldermot (scabby sow bug, slater, woodlouse). (various references) | |
Farsi | گردار, جرب دار (Mangey, Mangy, Reefer), دله دار, دارای خالهای جرب مانند. (various references) | |
Finnish | rupinen (scabbed). (various references) | |
French | sordide, scabieux (scabious), moche, méprisable (scaly). (various references) | |
German | schäbig (cheap, dingily, disreputable, dowdy, mangy, mean, measly, moldy, paltry, pokily, poky, poor, raggedly, seedily, seedy, shabbily, shabby, shoddily, shoddy, sordid, stingy, tackily, tacks, tacky, threadbare, tinny). (various references) | |
Greek | ψωραλέοσ (mangy). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוכ" שחין (leprous, mangy), שפל (base, degeneration, ebb, humble, indolent, lousy, low, low down, low tide, lowliness, mean, mean-spirited, meek, minimum, miscreant, ornery, recession, scamp, shabby, sordid, vile). (various references) | |
Hungarian | koszos (begrimed, crappy, dirty, epochal, foul, grimy, lousy, mangy, scabious, scruffy), heges (callused, cicatricose, crusted), varas (crusted, crusted over), smucig (mean, near), rühes (itchy, mangy, scabious, shabby). (various references) | |
Italian | scabbioso (scabbed, scabious), coperto di croste. (various references) | |
Manx | screbbagh (mangy, rascally, scabbed, scoundrelly), carrag. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abbyscay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cheio de casca. (various references) | |
Romanian | scabios (mangy, scabious), ticãlos (a bad egg, base, cad, canting, cur, dark, dirty, felon, foul, heel, hound, impious, kite, knave, knavish, knavishly, low-minded, mean, meanly, miscreant, paltry, perverse, picaroon, rapscallion, rascal, rascally, recreant, reprobate, ruffian, scab, scamp, scoundrel, scurvy, serpentine, shabby, skunk, sneak, sneaking, vile, villain, villainous, wretch, wretched), râios (itching, itchy, mangy), cu scabie, chelbos. (various references) | |
Russian | паршивый (crappy, mangy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | krastav (scalded), šugav (mangy, scabious). (various references) | |
Spanish | costroso (crusty). (various references) | |
Swedish | skabbig (mangy, scabious). (various references) | |
Thai | ตกสะเก็" (scab, scale). (various references) | |
Turkish | uyuz (heartless, inert, itch, itchy, languid, mange, mangy, scab, scabies, scabious, slouching, slouchy, stick in the mud), kel (bald, Baldhead, baldpate, coot, hairless), kabuklanmış (scabbed, scabrous, scaly), kabuk bağlamış (scabbed, scabrous, skinned), aşağılık (abject, base, baseness, contemptible, dirty, groveling, grovelling, ignoble, ignominious, inferiority, low down, lowness, mean, no class, no good, pettiness, petty, rascally, reptilian, scurvy, slavish, snotty, sordid, tinpot, unutterable, unworthy, vile, wicked, wormy). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шолудивий, паршивий. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | có đóng vảy ghẻ hèn hạ, đê tiện (abject, contemptible, hangdog, ignoble, ignominious, lousily, plebeian, scabbily, scaly, scurvy, servile, shabby, small). (various references) | |
Welsh | crach (petty). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Porcellio scaber, scaber. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Scabby" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scabb, scabbia, scabbie, scabey, scabie, Scawby, Scobbie, Scowby, scrabbly, scrabby, scragboy, snabb, swabby, Swaby. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "scabby" (pronounced 'Scab"by'): Blebby, Bobby, Booby, Busby, Chubby, Cobby, Crabby, Darby, flabby, Gaby, Gawby, hubby, knobby, Looby, Mabby, Nobby, Oby, Rudesby, Scobby, scrubby, shabby, shrubby, Slabby, Sneaksby, snobby, squabby, stubby, Suresby, toby, tubby, Webby. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-c-s-y" | |
-1 letter: cabby. | |
-2 letters: abys, baby, bays, cabs, cays, scab. | |
-3 letters: abs, aby, ays, bas, bay, bys, cab, cay, sab, sac, say. | |
-4 letters: ab, as, ay, ba, by, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-b-c-s-y" | |
+2 letters: buybacks, scabbily, scrabbly. | |
+3 letters: beachboys, blackboys, crybabies. | |
+4 letters: absorbancy, absorbency, buckyballs. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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