Scurvy

Definition: Scurvy

Scurvy

Adjective

1. Of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick".

Noun

1. A condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C).

Date "scurvy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Domain	Definition
Health	A deficiency disease due to lack of vitamin C in the diet. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Scurvy

Synonyms: abject (adj), low (adj), low-down (adj), miserable (adj), scummy (adj). (additional references)

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.
Insufficiency	Scant; (small); scarce; not to be had, not to be had for love or money, not to be had at any price; scurvy; stingy; at the end of one's tether; without resources; in want; (poor); in debt.
Uncleanness	Decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous; gory, bloody; rotting; Verb: rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese.
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).
Vice	Base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous; flagrant, flagitious; atrocious, incarnate, accursed.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Scurvy

English words defined with "scurvy": abject, Antiscorbutic, ascorbic acid ♦ Cochlearia officinalis, common scurvy grass ♦ Horse-radish ♦ low, low-down ♦ miserable ♦ Scorbute, scorbutic, Scorbutical, Scorbutus, scummy, Scurviness, scurvy grass, Spoonwort ♦ vitamin C. (references)

Specialty definitions using "scurvy": DUEL ♦ Gonin ♦ HONORABLE ♦ Jack-a-napes. (references)

Etymologies containing "scurvy": Scorbute. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Well, it doesn't, Mr. Potter! In the whole vast configuration of things, I'd say you were nothing but a scurvy little spider (It's a Wonderful Life; writing credit: Philip Van Doren Stern; Frances Goodrich)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	The History of Scurvy and Vitamin C (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Love in the Time of Scurvy (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Scorbutic-type gums due to Scurvy caused by vitamin C deficiency. Credit: CDC.		[Back view of a male scurvy victim]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
William Shakespeare	Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to the reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed the most unexpected and deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life in a duel. That dueling's a gentlemanly vice I hold; and wish that it had been my lot To live my life out in some favored spot -- Some country where it is considered nice To split a rival like a fish, or slice A husband like a spud, or with a shot Bring down a debtor doubled in a knot And ready to be put upon the ice. Some miscreants there are, whom I do long To shoot, to stab, or some such way reclaim The scurvy rogues to better lives and manners, I seem to see them now -- a mighty throng. It looks as if to challenge me they came, Jauntily marching with brass bands and banners! Xamba Q. Dar
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Scurvy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 57.89% of the time. "Scurvy" is used about 19 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
Noun (singular)	57.89%	11	106,044
Adjective (general or positive)	42.11%	8	124,375
Total	100.00%	19	N/A

Expressions using "scurvy": alpine scurvy ♦ common scurvy grass ♦ scurvy grass. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "scurvy": scurvy-grass.
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.

Language		Translations for "scurvy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		skorbut, 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, scrubby, shoddy, subdued, vile, villainous, vulgar), i poshtër (beggarly, blackguardly, caitiff, dastardly, dirt, ignoble, infamous, mean, miscreant, nasty, nefarious, picayune, rammish, scoundrelly, sneaking, sneaky). (various references)

Arabic		‏وضيع (contemptible, cowardly, grubby, humble, inferior, low, low-grade, lowly, mean, menial, scabby, scaly, scruffy, 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, scabby, scaly, scoundrelly, scruffy, scummy, servile, shabby, shoddy, slavish, slim, slushy, small minded, snide, sod, squalid, swine, tacky, trifling, ungracious, unworthy, varmint, vile, villainous, worthless, wretched), ‏دنئ (currish, loon, low down, mean, obsequious, rank, seamy, servile, sleazy, stinking), ‏داء الاسقريوط. (various references)

Bulgarian		скорбут, низък (abject, base, contemptible, degraded, ignoble, low down, low-minded, mangy, mean, mean-spirited, miscreant, paltry, scaly, unworthy, vile, villainous, yellow), подъл (base, blackguardly, caitiff, creeping, dastardly, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, dirt, dirty, dishonorable, dishonourable, jesuitic, jesuitical, low, low down, low-minded, mean, mean-spirited, miscreant, recreant, reptile, shabby, snaky, sneaking, sneaky, snide, vile, villainous), долен (abject, base, bottom, contemptible, currish, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, inferior, iniquitous, low, lower, low-grade, mangy, mean, mean-spirited, rascal, ratty, reptile, rotten, scaly, shady, under, unworthy, vile, villainous). (various references)

Chinese		坏血病. (various references)

Czech		skorbut, kurdìje, hanebný (deplorable, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, heinous, horrendous, ignoble, ignominious, nasty, nefarious, shameful, sordid, squalid, unspeakable, vile, villainous), bídný (abject, bad, eagre, low down, mean, miserable, pitiful, sordid, squalid, wretched). (various references)

Danish		skoerbug (scorbutus), scorbut (scorbutus). (various references)

Dutch		scorbuut (scorbutus), scorbutus (scorbutus), scheurbuik (scorbutus). (various references)

Farsi		پوشیده ازشوره , منفور (Cussed, Hateful, Loathloth, Obnoxious, Outcast, Ungracious, Unpopular), کمبودویتامینC . (various references)

Finnish		keripukki. (various references)

French		scorbut (scorbutus). (various references)

German		Skorbut (scorbutus), gemein (abject, abominable, base, basely, beastly, bitchy, caitiff, cheap, coarse, common, cussedly, dirty, disreputable, foul, horrid, horridly, infamous, invidious, joint, low, lower case, malicious, maliciously, mean, meanly, miscreant, miserable, miserably, nastily, nasty, paltry, rascally, reptilian, rotten, scurillously, scurvily, sordid, spiteful, squalid, squalidly, ugly, unkind, unkindly, vicious, vile, vilely, villainous, vulgar, wicked). (various references)

Greek		σκορβούτο. (various references)

Hebrew		צפ�"י� �", � �'וע בצפ�"י� �". (various references)

Hungarian		skorbut, aljas (blackguard, caitiff, dastardly, depraved, despicable, dirty mean, felon, flagitious, foul, grovelling, infamous, knavish, low down, nefarious, perfidious, scrounging, scummy, scurvied, shabby, sordid, villainous). (various references)

Italian		scorbuto (scorbutus). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		壊血病　 (scorbutic, scorbutus), 壊血病 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		かいけつびょう. (various references)

Korean		괴혈병. (various references)

Manx		gorley carragh, carragh (carious, crazy, rocky, rough, scab, scurfy), brooan marrey. (various references)

Pig Latin		urvyscay.(various references)

Portuguese		escorbuto (scorbutus). (various references)

Romanian		scorbut, 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, scabby, scamp, scoundrel, serpentine, shabby, skunk, sneak, sneaking, vile, villain, villainous, wretch, wretched), respingãtor (abhorrent, awful, awfully, disagreeable, dreadful, dreadfully, forbidding, foul, fulsome, hideous, infamous, obnoxious, obscene, odious, odiousness, offensive, pestilent, rebarbative, repellent, repulsive, repulsively, unprepossessing, verminous), josnic (abject, base, base-minded, despicable, dirty, grovelling, grubby, infamous, little, low, low-minded, mean, meanly, nasty, paltry, scurrilous, shabby, slavish, sordid, sordidly, vile), dezgustãtor (abominable, disgusting, fulsome, loathsome, loathsomely, nasty, nauseous, obscene, odious, odiously, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, sickening, unsavory, unsavoury, vile). (various references)

Russian		цинга подлый, цинга, низкий (deep, dishonourable, give away, hangdog, ignoble, infamous, keen, lousy, low, low down, lowly, mean, nefarious, picayune, poor, scummy, short, stinkard, vile, wormy), презренный (abject, caitiff, contemptible, despicable, measly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		skorbut, prljav (dingy, dirty, drossy, feculent, filthy, foul, grimy, impure, muck, mucky, sordid, squalid, unclean), podao (abject, caitiff, knavish, lousy, low down, vile). (various references)

Spanish		escorbuto. (various references)

Swedish		tarvlig (cheap, common, frugal, ignoble, low down, paltry, seamy, shabby, vulgar), skörbjugg. (various references)

Turkish		pislik (contamination, crap, crud, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, excrement, excreta, faecal matter, faeces, feculence, filth, filthiness, foulness, gook, griminess, impurity, jerk, mess, mire, muck, nastiness, offscourings, ordure, pollution, scum, smear, smut, soil, sordidness, squalor, uncleanliness), iskorbüt hastalığı (scorbutic), aşağılık (abject, base, baseness, contemptible, dirty, groveling, grovelling, ignoble, ignominious, inferiority, low down, lowness, mean, no class, no good, pettiness, petty, rascally, reptilian, scabby, slavish, snotty, sordid, tinpot, unutterable, unworthy, vile, wicked, wormy). (various references)

Ukrainian		цинга (scorbute), невихований (boorish, chuffy, discourteous, ill bred, ill mannered, uncultured, unnurtured), мерзотник (caitiff, nithing), підлий (babylonian, base, base-born, beggarly, caddish, caitiff, cheap, dastard, dastardly, dishonorable, dishonourable, grimy, hangdog, hoggish, ignoble, low down, mean-spirited, nefarious, niddering, picayune, rascal, reprobate, scabbed, scoundrel, scummy, small, sneaking, sneaky, vile, yellow dog), покритий лупою (scurfy). (various references)

Vietnamese		hèn hạ (abject, base, basely, blithering, despicable, dirtily, dirty, dishonourable, meanly, picayune, poor, scabbily, shabby, vile), đê tiện (abject, contemptible, hangdog, ignoble, ignominious, lousily, plebeian, scabbily, scabby, scaly, servile, shabby, small), đáng khinh (contemptible, dirty, picayune, scaly, threepenny, unworthy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Late Latin	300-700	psoriasis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Leviticus Chapter 21, Verse 20
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	H kurtoV h efhloV h ptiloV touV ofqalmouV h anqrwpoV w an h en autw ywra agria h lichn h monorciV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Si gibbus si lippus si albuginem habens in oculo si iugem scabiem si inpetiginem in corpore vel hirniosus
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	If crokid rigge, or bleer eyed; if whijt perle hauynge in the eye; if contynuel scab; if a drye scab in the body; or brosten.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Or croke backed, or perleyed, or gogeleyed, or maunge or skaulde or hath his stones broken.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Or crookbacked, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Or crooked-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his peculiar members broken:
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Or one whose back is bent, or one who is unnaturally small, or one who has a damaged eye, or whose skin is diseased, or whose sex parts are damaged;
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Leviticus Chapter 21, Verse 20
Cebuano	Kun buktot, kun enano, kun adunay biti sa mata, kun tawo nga nukaon, kun may bon-i, kun tawo nga gituntonan;
Chinese	駝背的、矮矬的、眼睛有毛病的、長癬的、長疥的、或是損壞腎子的、都不可近前來。
Croatian	ni poguren, ni kržljav, ni bolesnih oèiju, ni lišajav, ni krastav, niti uškopljenik.
Danish	eller en pukkelrygget eller en med Tæring eller en, der har Pletter i Øjnene eller lider af Skab eller Ringorm eller har svulne Testikler.
Dutch	Of die bultachtig, of dwergachtig zal zijn, of een vel op zijn oog zal hebben, of droge schurftheid, of etterige schurftheid, of die gebroken zal zijn aan zijn gemacht.
Finnish	kyttyräselkäinen tai surkastunut, silmävikainen tai ihotautinen tai rupinen tai kuohittu.
French	un homme bossu ou grêle, ayant une tache � l`oeil, la gale, une dartre, ou les testicules écrasés.
German	oder höckerig ist oder ein Fell auf dem Auge hat oder schielt oder den Grind oder Flechten hat oder der gebrochen ist.
Haitian Creole	kit li gen boul nan do, kit li rachitik, kit li malad nan je, kit li gen maladi po, kit grenn li kraze.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	yang bongkok atau cebol, yang berpenyakit mata atau berpenyakit kulit dan yang dikebiri.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	atau orang yang bungkuk, atau yang keretut, atau yang berbelalak matanya, atau yang berkurap atau berpuru atau berburut.
Italian	né un gobbo, né un nano, né chi abbia una macchia nell'occhio o la scabbia o piaghe purulente o sia eunuco.
Maori	Te tuara piko ranei, te mea i puwhenua te tupu, ki te papahewa ranei tona kanohi, ki te mea ranei he papaka, he hakihaki ranei tona, ki te mea ranei kua komurumurua ona mea;
Norwegian	eller som er pukkelrygget eller dverg eller har en hvit flekk på øiet eller har skabb eller noget annet utslett, eller hvis stener er knust.
Portuguese	ou for corcunda, ou anão, ou que tiver belida, ou sarna, ou impigens, ou que tiver testículo lesado;
Rumanian	nici un om ghebos sau pipernicit, cu albeayq kn ochi, care are rkie, pecingine sau bowit.
Russian	ОЙ ЗПТ�'БФЩК, ОЙ У УХИЙН ЮМЕОПН, ОЙ У �'ЕМШНПН ОБ ЗМБЪХ, ОЙ ЛПТПУФПЧЩК, ОЙ � БТЫЙЧЩК, ОЙ У � ПЧТЕЦ�"ЕООЩНЙ СФТБНЙ;
Spanish	jorobado, enano, quien tenga nube en el ojo, quien tenga sarna o tiña, o tenga testículo dañado.
Swedish	ingen som är puckelryggig eller förkrympt, eller som har fel på ögat, eller som har skabb eller annat utslag, eller som är snöpt.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings
	"Scurvy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scervy, scirvy, Scryveyn, scurve, scurvey, scury, skury, surv, survy. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-r-s-u-v-y"
	-1 letter: curvy.
	-2 letters: crus, curs, scry.
	-3 letters: cry, cur.
	-4 letters: us.
	Words containing the letters "c-r-s-u-v-y"
	+2 letters: scurvily.
	+3 letters: cursively.
	+5 letters: cavernously, excursively, purveyances, reclusively, recursively, vascularity, veraciously, vicariously, voraciously, voyeuristic.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
scurvy	208
picture scurvy	13
frank paul scurvy	9
scurvy symptom	9
scurvy disease	6
cove scurvy	3
health oral scurvy	3
pirate scurvy	3
scurvy treatment	3
dog scurvy	3
guinea pig scurvy	2
bastard scurvy	2
disease picture scurvy	2
christopher columbus scurvy	2
history scurvy	2
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Scurvy

Definition: Scurvy

Scurvy

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Specialty Definition: Scurvy

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Improbity

Insufficiency

Uncleanness

Unimportance

Vice

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