Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having, consisting of, or covered with scabs.
- adj. Affected with scab or scabies.
- adj. Informal Contemptible; vile: scabby greed.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Covered with scabs; full of scabs; consisting of scabs.
- Affected with scabies.
- Injured by the attachment of barnacles, limpets, and other shell-fish to the carapace, interfering with the growth of the shell at the spots affected: noting tortoise-shell so injured.
- In printing, noting printed matter that is blotched, spotty, or uneven in color.
- In founding, blistered or marred with scabs: said of a casting.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Affected with scabs; full of scabs.
- adj. Diseased with the scab, or mange; mangy.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. covered with scabs
Examples
“The sheep get scabby from a microbe under the skin, which causes them to itch fearfully, and they lose their wool.”
“They'd holler at you and call you "scabby" and things like that.”
“Our last visit was to the Dip, and it was only a short one, for it seemed a cruel process; unfortunately, this fine station is in technical parlance "scabby," and although of course great precautions are taken, still some 10,000 sheep had an ominous large”
“At this point, McCain is like some bloody-thighed heroin addict crawling around in shit and garbage because he can't find anyone to give his pathetic ass a fix, the kind of scabby bitch you wouldn't let blow you, but you might say, "Hey, eat this bug and I'll give you a buck," and that motherfucker'd do it.”
“President Obama will do what the people want, not what the repugs want. btw dnfp, go suck a big fat, scabby, purple dic, you f0ucking clown.”
“Please, do NOT recommend some place to get my hair done, there's not enough left on me to cover a scabby gerbil.”
“The town at their base could have been mistaken for the sprawling, rectilinear remains of an ancient Near Eastern city: low, scabby white stone walls separating sand drifts and mounds of rubble.”
“As Berk withdrew his hand he picked away the scabby tissue that had surrounded the projectile, and within moments he could feel her innards healing the way they were designed to.”
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“His was bloody from wiping his nose and slapping at the mosquitoes that kept landing on his scabby bald head.”
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