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adjective

Scabby adj. (compar. scabbier; superl. scabbiest)

Affected with scabs; full of scabs.

Diseased with the scab, or mange; mangy.

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Etymology of 'Scabby'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Scabby" Quotes from Famous Books

... climb breathlessly, and came out on the level. A great, monotonous, heartachy prairie lay before us—utterly featureless in the twilight. Far off across the scabby land a thin black line swept out of the dusk into the dusk—straight as a crow's flight. It was the railroad. We made a cross-cut for it, tumbling over gopher holes, plunging through sagebrush, scrambling over gullies that told the incredible tale ...

— The River and I • John G. Neihardt

... as I say, school hasn't really begun yet. And besides, Scabby here is almost as good as a master—and so is Lou Collingwood; I'm the only really ...

— The Jester of St. Timothy's • Arthur Stanwood Pier

... the last steep climb breathlessly, and came out on the level. A great, monotonous, heartachy prairie lay before us—utterly featureless in the twilight. Far off across the scabby land a thin black line swept out of the dusk into the dusk—straight as a crow's flight. It was the railroad. We made a cross-cut for it, tumbling over gopher holes, plunging through sagebrush, scrambling over gullies ...

— The River and I • John G. Neihardt

... shift, boys, shift, for there wasn't the slightest doubt It was time to make a shift with the leprosy about. So I saddled up my horses, and I whistled to my dog, And I left his scabby station ...

— The Man from Snowy River • Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson

... and their nooses all drawn out. They wondered how it could have been done. For many nights the nooses were drawn and the meat stolen; but once, when the wolves went there to steal, they found only the meat of a scabby bull, and the man-wolf was angry, and cried out, ...

— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman