Scrubby

Definition: Scrubby

Scrubby

Adjective

1. Sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush; "open scrubby woods".

2. Inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "scrubby" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Note: Scrubby \Scrub"by\, adjective. [Comparative Scrubbier; superlative Scrubbiest.]. (references)

Synonyms: Scrubby

Commonalty

Adjective: ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly; below par; no great shakes; (unimportant); homely, homespun; vulgar, low-minded; snobbish.

Disrepute

Ignominious, scrubby, dirty, abject, vile, beggarly, pitiful, low, mean, shabby base; (dishonorable).

Improbity

Contemptible, unrespectable, abject, mean, shabby, little, paltry, dirty, scurvy, scabby, sneaking, groveling, scrubby, rascally, pettifogging; beneath one.

Littleness

Weazen, scant, scraggy, scrubby; thin; (narrow); granular; (powdery); shrunk; brevipennate.

Parsimony

Adjective: parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, close; fast handed, close handed, strait handed; close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing; chary; grudging, griping; Verb: illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious.

Unimportance

Poor, paltry, pitiful; contemptible; (contempt); sorry, mean, meager, shabby, miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel, weedy, scurvy, putid, beggarly, worthless, twopennyhalfpenny, cheap, trashy, catchpenny, gimcrack, trumpery; one-horse. not worth the pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a straw; Noun: beneath notice, unworthy of notice, beneath regard, unworthy of regard, beneath consideration, unworthy of consideration; de lana caprina; vain; (useless).

Crosswords: Scrubby

Books

• A Bow Shot, or a Dream from Out the Scrubby Oaks (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

i ulët (base, contemptible, dark, deep, down, gentle, give away, humble, ignoble, infamous, low, low down, low lying, lowly, mean, modest, nasty, nefarious, petty, primary, rascally, scurvy, shoddy, subdued, vile, villainous, vulgar), i thatë (arid, blain, dead, dehydrated, dried, dry, empty, furuncle, lank, lathy, peaked, rainless, raw boned, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, sec, sere, short, skinny, slab-sided, slender, spare, spidery, thin, waterless, wizen, wizened), i shkurtër (brief, curt, fleeting, little, momentary, near, recapitulatory, short, stubby, terse, transitory). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قصير (low, short, shortened, squabby, squat, stumpy), ‏غير مرتب (disheveled, dishevelled, messy, out of order, untidiness, untidy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

развлечен (dowdy, dowdyish, scruffy, slatternly, unkempt), четинест (bristly), обрасъл с шубрак, незначителен (cheap, dinky, fiddling, fractional, frivolous, immaterial, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, inessential, inglorious, insignificant, least, little, mean, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nominal, noteless, nugatory, obscure, one horse, outside, paltry, peddling, pettifogging, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, potty, puerile, pygmy, rabbity, slight, small, small time, subfusc, tenuous, third class, tiddly, trifling, trivial, two-by-four, twopenny-halfpenny, unconsidered, unimportant), небръснат (unshaven), недорасъл (puny), нискостъблен (cobby), мърляв (dirty, grubby, raunchy, scruffy, slatternly, slipshod, slovenly), жалък (abject, lamentable, mangy, miserable, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, pokey, poor, sad, scabbed, scabby, scaly, sorrowful, sorry, squalid, woeful), бодлив (barbed, briery, bur, prickly, scratchy, spiny, thistly), долнокачествен (crummy, cut rate, gross, hedge, inferior, leaden, low-grade, pinchbeck, ropy, sleazy, slim, third class, tinpot, trashy). (various references)

Czech

zakrslý (stunted). (various references)

Farsi 

پاک شده , گمنام (Inglorious, Obscure, Unknown), تمیز (Clean, Dapper, Dinky, Neat, Prim, Pure). (various references)

French

rabougri, couvert de broussailles, broussailleux. (various references)

German

struppig (bristly, scrubbily, shaggy, standing on end, unkempt, untidy), armselig (mean, miserable, necessitous, paltrily, paltry, pathetic, penurious, penuriously, piteous, pitiful, poor, squalid, squalidly, wretched). (various references)

Greek 

καχεκτικόσ (peaky), ζαρωμένοσ (rugose, runty, shrunk, shrunken, wrinkly), ελεεινόσ (abject, beggarly, deplorable, disgraceful, forlorn, haggard, miserable, piteous, pitiable, scrub, seedy, sorry, wretched). (various references)

Hungarian

csenevész (runt, scraggy, scrub, scruffy), rongyos (frazzled, paltry, pelting, ragged, shabby, tattered, tatty), bozótos (bushy, scrubland, shrubby), borotválatlan (bristly, unrazored, unshaven). (various references)

Indonesian

ceding (small). (various references)

Manx

scurbagh, faasaagagh (bearded, whiskery). (various references)

Pig Latin

ubbyscray.(various references)

Portuguese

raquítico (rachitic, rickety), mesquinho (cheeseparing, close-fisted, costive, despicable, illiberal, little, logy, mangy, mean, mingy, miserly, niggling, peddling, penurious, pimping, pitiable, scaly, scurvy, small, sordid, stingy, unhandsome), insignificante (bald, fiddle-faddle, frivolous, inconsiderable, inferior, insignificant, little, mean, negligible, one-horse, paltry, petty, picayune, piddling, pimping, pitiable, pony, poor, potty, puny, small, trifling, trivial, unimportant, wispy), enfezado, atrofiado (aborted, atrophic, atrophied, stunted). (various references)

Romanian

mic (Chitty, chopping, contemptible, dwarfish, exiguous, little, low, mincing, minor, narrow, petty, pimping, poky, pony, poor, puny, shallow, shoe string, short, slender, slight, small, undersized, weak, wee, young), mãrunţel (mincing, tiny), cu arbuşti. (various references)

Russian 

низкорослый (cobby, stunted, undersized). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zakržljao (atrophied, stunted, vestigial). (various references)

Spanish

cubierto de maleza (shaggy), arrastrado, achaparrado (fubsy, scrub, stubby, stumpy, stunted). (various references)

Swedish

snårig, sjaskig (blowzy, dowdy, flea-bitten, grubby, scruffy, seedy, shabby, sleazy, tattered), sjabbig (down at heel, mangy, ratty, scruffy, seedy, shabby), ynklig (measly, paltry, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, rueful, sorry), risig (tumbledown), klen (cachectic, delicate, faint, feeble, frail, infirm, light, low, poorly, slight, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weak), förkrympt (abortive, dwarfed, scrub, stunted), buskig (bushy, shrubby). (various references)

Turkish

ufak (little, micro-, peddling, petit, petty, small, tiddly), tıraşı gelmiş (stubbly, stubby), fırça gibi (bushy, stubbly, stubby, wiry), cüce (dwarf, elf, gnome, ground-, homunculus, hop-o'-my-thumb, lilliputian, manikin, midget, nano-, pigmy, pygmean, pygmy, runt, scrub, shrimp, tom thumb), bodur (brief, dumpy, dwarf, low, podgy, pudgy, punch, scrub, short, shortie, shorty, shrimp, squabby, squat, stocky, stumpy, stunted), önemsiz (back burner, derisive, derisory, dinky, empty, fiddling, footling, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconspicuous, indifferent, inessential, insignificant, jerkwater, minute, negligible, no-account, non essential, nonessential, not healthy, not worth a fig, null, of no account, of no significance, of no worth, one horse, paltry, paper, peanut, peddling, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, poky, potty, quotidian, secondary, slight, small, smalltime, trifling, trivial, tuppeny, unessential, unimportant, unsubstantial, worthless, yeasty), çalılık (brake, braky, brushwood, brush-wood, bushes, coppice, copse, scrub, shrubbery, spinney, thicket). (various references)

Ukrainian

нікчемний (contemptible, futile, gewgaw, no-account, not worth a damn, paltry, piffling, punk, riff raff, shabby, trifling, unworthy), низькорослий (base, cobby, runty, sawn-off, stunted), порослий чагарником. (various references)

Vietnamese 

vô giá trị (bum, gewgaw, nude, nugatory, rotten, stramineous, straw, trashy, two-bit, waste), cằn cỗi tầm thường, có nhiều bụi rậm còi. (various references)

Misspellings

"Scrubby" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scrabbly, scrabby, scragboy, scribbly, Scrooby, Scrubb. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: burbs, busby, cubby, curbs, scrub.

-3 letters: bubs, burs, bury, busy, buys, crus, cubs, curb, curs, rubs, ruby, scry, urbs.

-4 letters: bub, bur, bus, buy, bys, cry, cub, cur, rub, sub, urb.

-5 letters: by, us.