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scabby, a.|ˈskæbɪ|
[f. scab n. + -y.]
1. a. = scabbed a. 1.
1526Grete Herball cccclxxiii. (1529) B b j b, It causeth also the skynne that is scabby to be fayre and clene. 1665Hooke Microgr. 122 Parts of the leaves grow scabby. 1674J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland v. 15 They are nasty and scabby, and use not to comb their heads. 1742tr. Heister's Surg. (1768) I. 288 There is still a worse kind of Tinea, or scabby Head, covering the whole hairy Scalp with an ash⁓coloured thick Crust. 1759Brown Compl. Farmer 86 Pigeons are sometimes apt to be scabby on the backs and breasts. 1801Wolcot (P. Pindar) Tears & Smiles Wks. 1812 V. 55 Thus scabby heads, the proverb says, For ever hate a comb. 1829Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) V. 637 Ecpyesis porrigo. Scabby scall. 1883Sayce Fresh Light Anc. Mon. 81 Anything leprous or scabby or lean is forbidden.
Comb.a1697Aubrey in Selden's Table-t. (Arb.) 4 Selden was a long scabby-pol'd boy. 1695Lond. Gaz. No. 3041/4 A middle sized man Scaby faced, with blotches.
b. Proverbially and allusively (cf. scabbed 1 d). Also scabby sheep: a corrupt person, a moral leper.
1610[see scabbed 1 d]. 1728Earl of Ailesbury Mem. (1890) 176 At the Guildhall, those worthy Aldermen excluded were looked on as scabby sheep. 1861Mayhew Lond. Labour III. 99/1, I was the scabby sheep of the family, and I've been punished for it. 1894Hall Caine Manxman iii. xviii, One scabby sheep infects the flock.
c. Coal-mining. (See quots.)
1888Greenwell Coal-trade Terms s.v. Claggy, when the roof is..uneven or scabby. 1893–4Northumbld. Gloss. s.v., A scabby-roof is when the coal does not part freely from the stone at the top.
d. Iron-founding. = scabbed a. 1 e.
1883T. D. West Amer. Foundry Pract. 246 Scabby castings in green and sand moulds.
e. Printing. Blotchy, through uneven inking.
1882J. Southward Pract. Printing xiii. 461 Dust..spoils the ink, surrounds the rollers and makes them work ‘scabby’.
2. fig. Contemptible, mean, vile; stingy, ‘shabby’. Now only vulgar.
1712Odes of Horace viii. 12/1 This scabby Lection has passed current in all the Editions. 1861Meredith Evan Harrington I. vi. 92 A scabby sixpence?
3. Special collocations: scabby mouth (Austral. and N.Z.), a viral disease of sheep characterized by ulceration around the mouth; scabby sheep: see sense 1 b above.
1938J. R. Greig et al. Hutyra's Special Path. & Therapeutics (ed. 4) 579 (heading) Lip and leg ulceration, scabby mouth. 1950N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Aug. 100/2 On farms where scabby mouth occurs each new crop of lambs should be vaccinated, and this is most conveniently done at marking. 1966V. G. Cole Dis. Sheep 217 Scabby mouth can be transmitted to the hands of persons handling affected sheep. |