scabby
3
5.7
- adjective
- /ˈskæbi/
:
costroso
- His fists were at his face and at his bloody, scabby chest.
- scabby knee
- scabby hands
- scabby old man
They got the unblinking eyes, the crooked teeth that stick out, the scabby skin.
- They got the unblinking eyes, the crooked teeth that stick out, the scabby skin.
Examples
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The fishing boat was a scabby old tub, but when you're only paying fifteen dollars a person for three hours of fishing, you don't get the Queen Elizabeth II.
Fiction book (1997) -
We found a stray, scabby dog and imagined it to be our guard dog, and we patrolled the gardens.
Fiction book (2002) -
My nose is still really red and scabby, but the rest of my face was pretty, pretty good.
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So I thought it would be nice to wear the nude in this one over my scabby lip.
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You're still the same scabby boy.
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She reached under his shirt and scratched his back, picking with her short fingernails at the scabby skin there.
Fiction book (1999) -
They don't want the ones with the scabby knees... and their arses hanging out of their trousers.
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Her sharp eyes could see the scabby paint on the walls and the spur gouges in the floor under the layers of wax, but she refused to notice.
Fiction book (1991) -
His long, loose, wet tongue lolled, dripping saliva; his shoulder and back muscles rippled beneath his coarse, matted fur; his scabby ears.
Fiction book (1998) -
The patient had a scabby wound on his leg that needed to be treated carefully.
Synonyms
15
3.3
A surface with small, flat pieces like fish or reptile skin
1
9.9
Rough to the touch with many small bumps or scales
Covered with a dry, hard layer that forms over a healing cut or sore
Antonyms
How Crusted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Scabby comes from the noun scab, which means 'a hard, crusty patch on the skin', and the ending -y means 'full of' or 'covered with'. So scabby simply means 'covered with scabs'.