scabrousadj.

Brit.

/ˈskeɪbrəs/,

/ˈskabrəs/, U.S.

/ˈskæbrəs/,

/ˈskeɪbrəs/

Etymology: < Latin scabr-, scaber (related to scabĕre to scrape, scratch) + -ous suffix. Compare also late Latin scabrōsus, French scabreux.

a. Rough with minute points or knobs, as distinguished from unevenness of surface: esp. Natural History and Physiology.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > colour or texture > [adjective] > rough

scabrous1657

scabrate1890

1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects i. iii. 7 All her feet are scabrous, and rough, to take hold at the first touch.

1741 A. Monro Anat. Nerves 103 in Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) A scabrous bony Ridge.

1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. v. 179 Scabrous, rugged; when the Disk is covered with Tubercules, little Knobs.

1790 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Gen. Hist. Quadrupeds 145 The surface of the skin was scabrous and knotty, of a close texture, and when dry extremely hard.

1803 Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 97 215 A lens that had a very scabrous polish on one side.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 858 The alæ of the nose become swelled and scabrous.

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 273 Scabrous... Rough to the touch from granules scarcely visible.

1894 R. B. Sharpe Hand-bk. Birds Great Brit. I. 4 [The Rook has] the forehead and sides of face bare, and covered with a white scabrous skin.

b. In figurative phrases with reference to caustic writing.

ΚΠ

1862 M. Hopkins Hawaii 275 He wrote with point and rapidity, and his pen had a scabrous edge.

c. Encrusted, begrimed. Chiefly U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective]

uncleaneOE

horyc1000

foulOE

fennilicha1225

sutya1225

mixc1225

blackc1300

solwyc1325

bawdy1377

filthyc1384

nastyc1390

sowlyc1400

soryc1440

uncleanly1447

mossyc1450

dungyc1494

bedirted1528

slubberly?1529

filthish1530

deturpate?1533

mucky1538

stercorous1542

bluterc1550

dungish?1550

puddly1559

drumly1563

suddle1568

parbruilyiedc1586

sluttered1589

dirty1600

ordurous?1606

immund1621

turpie1633

sterquilinious1647

bruckled1648

cloacal1656

foede1657

stercorose1727

murky1755

sterquilinian1772

cloacinean1814

floy1820

poucey1829

stoachy1836

mullocky1839

muckering1841

sewery1851

dutty1853

dauby1855

cloacean1859

mucky1863

bilgy1878

cloacaline1879

muck-heapy1881

cloacinal1887

schmutzig1911

grufty1922

scabrous1939

mawkit1962

feechie1975

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [adjective] > encrusting > encrusted

crusted1382

incrustated1659

incrustate1671

scurfy1732

crustated1780

encrusted1815

leprous1820

barkened1827

scabrous1939

1939 Listener 19 Jan. 157/1 A once bewitching villa, now scabrous, awaits the knacker.

1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) [The] shell of the house is scabrous with lichen and mildew. J. Reynolds.

1962 P. H. Johnson Error of Judgement xxxiii. 240 In this early glow, the tattered and scabrous paintwork on the porticos looked like a covering of dead leaves, ivy, or virginia creeper, brittle at the end of autumn.

1967 T. Keneally Bring Larks ii. 16 In its [sc. a hut's] bay of scabrous timber, it was altogether a poor comment on Halloran's vehemence.

1969 N.Y. Rev. Books 2 Jan. 14/1 Trudging over countless guts of cement that ran like slag in Gehenna; I stuffed my scabrous shoes with newspapers.

2. Of an author, his composition or style: Harsh, unmusical, unpolished.Cf. late Latin versus scabri (Macrobius).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adjective] > harsh

rough?1520

scabrousa1585

harsh1594

unsmooth1610

unsmoothed1614

truculent1850

abrasive1861

gritty1882

a1585 Ld. Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 31 Thy ragged roundels,..some out of lyne, with scabrous colours.

a1637 B. Jonson Timber 1946 in Wks. (1640) III Virgill was most loving of Antiquity; yet how rarely doth hee insert aquai, and pictai! Lucretius is scabrous and rough in these.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia (at cited word) A Scabrous style, for an unpleasant kinde of writing.

1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. xxx His Verse is scabrous, and hobbling.

3. Full of obstacles, difficult, ‘thorny’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > [adjective]

arvethc885

uneathOE

arvethlichc1000

evilc1175

hardc1175

deara1225

derfa1225

illc1330

wickeda1375

uneasy1398

difficul?a1450

difficile?1473

difficulta1527

unready1535

craggy1582

spiny1604

tough1619

uphill1622

shrewda1626

spinousa1638

scabrous1646

spinose1660

rugged1663

cranka1745

tight1764

thraward1818

nasty1828

upstream1847

awkward1860

pricklyc1862

bristling1871

sticky1871

rocky1873

dodgy1898

challengeful1927

solid1943

ball-busting1944

challenging1975

1646 R. Baillie Let. Feb. (1841) II. 349 We stick long sometymes upon scabrous questions.

1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 72 Whosoever would be saved from falling into error and heterodoxy on this scabrous ground.

1832 J. Austin Province Jurispr. ii. 46 We must pick our scabrous way with the help of a glimmering light.

1904 Times 15 June 7/2 When this scabrous moment arrives the Russian defenders may remember Dragomiroff and his advice.

4. Risky, bordering upon the indelicate. Now frequently used in various extended senses: nastily abusive, disgusting, repulsive.Cf. quot. 1862 at sense 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > [adjective]

blackOE

rotea1382

lousyc1386

unwashed?a1390

fulsomec1390

filthy?c1400

rankc1400

leprousa1425

sicka1425

miry1532

shitten?1545

murrain1575

obscene1597

vicious1597

ketty1607

putrid1628

putredinous1641

foede1657

fulsamic1694

carrion1826

foul1842

shitty1879

scabrous1880

scummy1932

pukey1933

shitting1950

gungy1962

grungy1965

shithouse1966

grot1967

bogging1973

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [adjective] > verging on

risqué1867

scabrous1880

risky1881

décolleté1890

pink1898

mondo1966

1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. iv. 66 Sentiment, cynicism, and satin impropriety and scabrous, are among those verses where pure poetry has a recognized voice.

1882 World 1 Nov. 5 His scabrous novels.

1894 Athenæum 3 Mar. 275/3 Mr. Maude..has chosen to write about divorce and adultery,..and many other potentially scabrous topics.

1951 M. Kennedy Lucy Carmichael ii. i. 79 One shouldn't believe a word Emil says. I ventured to ask them..about Terrific Charles, because Emil is always particularly scabrous about him.

1969 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Jan. 32/4 Without going into scabrous detail, might he not have given us just a teeny hint as to why ‘the experience convinced me the union was indeed for decentralization’?

1973 Times 24 May 19/1 [Scandals] create hysteria because they appeal to a scabrous and irrational element in the human mind.

1979 London Rev. Bks. 25 Oct. 10/1 His propaganda pieces grow more outrageously scabrous.

Derivatives

ˈscabrously adv. in a scabrous manner, †harshly.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adverb]

barbarously1531

rustically1548

crabbedly1561

scabrouslya1572

gracelesslya1586

unelegantly1603

uneloquently1611

crudely1638

inelegantly1698

ineloquently1828

a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 10 Albeit that some thingis be obscurly, and some thingis scabruslie spokin.

1977 N.Y. Rev. Books 14 Apr. 8/2 The first of the book's three sections, in which a non-existent and uninhabited Ibansk is carefully and at times scabrously described.

ˈscabrousness n. ruggedness, hardness.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [noun]

roughnessa1398

beggarliness1542

crabbedness1546

barbarousness1549

grossness1563

rusticity1565

barbarism1578

inconcinnity1616

ungracefulness1658

incuriosity1661

incomptness1669

uncouthness1672

unpoliteness1684

barbarity1706

inelegance1726

inelegancy1727

scabrousness1727

asperity1779

crudity1885

ineloquence1894

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Scabrousness, Ruggedness, Roughness.

1847 Fraser's Mag. 36 519 What a contemporary of Shakspeare called the scabrousness of our elder literature.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	scabrous
释义	scabrousadj. Brit. /ˈskeɪbrəs/, /ˈskabrəs/, U.S. /ˈskæbrəs/, /ˈskeɪbrəs/ Etymology: < Latin scabr-, scaber (related to scabĕre to scrape, scratch) + -ous suffix. Compare also late Latin scabrōsus, French scabreux. 1. a. Rough with minute points or knobs, as distinguished from unevenness of surface: esp. Natural History and Physiology. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > colour or texture > [adjective] > rough scabrous1657 scabrate1890 1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects i. iii. 7 All her feet are scabrous, and rough, to take hold at the first touch. 1741 A. Monro Anat. Nerves 103 in Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) A scabrous bony Ridge. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. v. 179 Scabrous, rugged; when the Disk is covered with Tubercules, little Knobs. 1790 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Gen. Hist. Quadrupeds 145 The surface of the skin was scabrous and knotty, of a close texture, and when dry extremely hard. 1803 Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 97 215 A lens that had a very scabrous polish on one side. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 858 The alæ of the nose become swelled and scabrous. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 273 Scabrous... Rough to the touch from granules scarcely visible. 1894 R. B. Sharpe Hand-bk. Birds Great Brit. I. 4 [The Rook has] the forehead and sides of face bare, and covered with a white scabrous skin. b. In figurative phrases with reference to caustic writing. ΚΠ 1862 M. Hopkins Hawaii 275 He wrote with point and rapidity, and his pen had a scabrous edge. c. Encrusted, begrimed. Chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective] uncleaneOE horyc1000 foulOE fennilicha1225 sutya1225 mixc1225 blackc1300 solwyc1325 bawdy1377 filthyc1384 nastyc1390 sowlyc1400 soryc1440 uncleanly1447 mossyc1450 dungyc1494 bedirted1528 slubberly?1529 filthish1530 deturpate?1533 mucky1538 stercorous1542 bluterc1550 dungish?1550 puddly1559 drumly1563 suddle1568 parbruilyiedc1586 sluttered1589 dirty1600 ordurous?1606 immund1621 turpie1633 sterquilinious1647 bruckled1648 cloacal1656 foede1657 stercorose1727 murky1755 sterquilinian1772 cloacinean1814 floy1820 poucey1829 stoachy1836 mullocky1839 muckering1841 sewery1851 dutty1853 dauby1855 cloacean1859 mucky1863 bilgy1878 cloacaline1879 muck-heapy1881 cloacinal1887 schmutzig1911 grufty1922 scabrous1939 mawkit1962 feechie1975 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [adjective] > encrusting > encrusted crusted1382 incrustated1659 incrustate1671 scurfy1732 crustated1780 encrusted1815 leprous1820 barkened1827 scabrous1939 1939 Listener 19 Jan. 157/1 A once bewitching villa, now scabrous, awaits the knacker. 1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) [The] shell of the house is scabrous with lichen and mildew. J. Reynolds. 1962 P. H. Johnson Error of Judgement xxxiii. 240 In this early glow, the tattered and scabrous paintwork on the porticos looked like a covering of dead leaves, ivy, or virginia creeper, brittle at the end of autumn. 1967 T. Keneally Bring Larks ii. 16 In its [sc. a hut's] bay of scabrous timber, it was altogether a poor comment on Halloran's vehemence. 1969 N.Y. Rev. Books 2 Jan. 14/1 Trudging over countless guts of cement that ran like slag in Gehenna; I stuffed my scabrous shoes with newspapers. 2. Of an author, his composition or style: Harsh, unmusical, unpolished.Cf. late Latin versus scabri (Macrobius). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adjective] > harsh rough?1520 scabrousa1585 harsh1594 unsmooth1610 unsmoothed1614 truculent1850 abrasive1861 gritty1882 a1585 Ld. Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 31 Thy ragged roundels,..some out of lyne, with scabrous colours. a1637 B. Jonson Timber 1946 in Wks. (1640) III Virgill was most loving of Antiquity; yet how rarely doth hee insert aquai, and pictai! Lucretius is scabrous and rough in these. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia (at cited word) A Scabrous style, for an unpleasant kinde of writing. 1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. xxx His Verse is scabrous, and hobbling. 3. Full of obstacles, difficult, ‘thorny’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [adjective] arvethc885 uneathOE arvethlichc1000 evilc1175 hardc1175 deara1225 derfa1225 illc1330 wickeda1375 uneasy1398 difficul?a1450 difficile?1473 difficulta1527 unready1535 craggy1582 spiny1604 tough1619 uphill1622 shrewda1626 spinousa1638 scabrous1646 spinose1660 rugged1663 cranka1745 tight1764 thraward1818 nasty1828 upstream1847 awkward1860 pricklyc1862 bristling1871 sticky1871 rocky1873 dodgy1898 challengeful1927 solid1943 ball-busting1944 challenging1975 1646 R. Baillie Let. Feb. (1841) II. 349 We stick long sometymes upon scabrous questions. 1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 72 Whosoever would be saved from falling into error and heterodoxy on this scabrous ground. 1832 J. Austin Province Jurispr. ii. 46 We must pick our scabrous way with the help of a glimmering light. 1904 Times 15 June 7/2 When this scabrous moment arrives the Russian defenders may remember Dragomiroff and his advice. 4. Risky, bordering upon the indelicate. Now frequently used in various extended senses: nastily abusive, disgusting, repulsive.Cf. quot. 1862 at sense 1b. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > [adjective] blackOE rotea1382 lousyc1386 unwashed?a1390 fulsomec1390 filthy?c1400 rankc1400 leprousa1425 sicka1425 miry1532 shitten?1545 murrain1575 obscene1597 vicious1597 ketty1607 putrid1628 putredinous1641 foede1657 fulsamic1694 carrion1826 foul1842 shitty1879 scabrous1880 scummy1932 pukey1933 shitting1950 gungy1962 grungy1965 shithouse1966 grot1967 bogging1973 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [adjective] > verging on risqué1867 scabrous1880 risky1881 décolleté1890 pink1898 mondo1966 1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. iv. 66 Sentiment, cynicism, and satin impropriety and scabrous, are among those verses where pure poetry has a recognized voice. 1882 World 1 Nov. 5 His scabrous novels. 1894 Athenæum 3 Mar. 275/3 Mr. Maude..has chosen to write about divorce and adultery,..and many other potentially scabrous topics. 1951 M. Kennedy Lucy Carmichael ii. i. 79 One shouldn't believe a word Emil says. I ventured to ask them..about Terrific Charles, because Emil is always particularly scabrous about him. 1969 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Jan. 32/4 Without going into scabrous detail, might he not have given us just a teeny hint as to why ‘the experience convinced me the union was indeed for decentralization’? 1973 Times 24 May 19/1 [Scandals] create hysteria because they appeal to a scabrous and irrational element in the human mind. 1979 London Rev. Bks. 25 Oct. 10/1 His propaganda pieces grow more outrageously scabrous. Derivatives ˈscabrously adv. in a scabrous manner, †harshly. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adverb] barbarously1531 rustically1548 crabbedly1561 scabrouslya1572 gracelesslya1586 unelegantly1603 uneloquently1611 crudely1638 inelegantly1698 ineloquently1828 a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 10 Albeit that some thingis be obscurly, and some thingis scabruslie spokin. 1977 N.Y. Rev. Books 14 Apr. 8/2 The first of the book's three sections, in which a non-existent and uninhabited Ibansk is carefully and at times scabrously described. ˈscabrousness n. ruggedness, hardness. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [noun] roughnessa1398 beggarliness1542 crabbedness1546 barbarousness1549 grossness1563 rusticity1565 barbarism1578 inconcinnity1616 ungracefulness1658 incuriosity1661 incomptness1669 uncouthness1672 unpoliteness1684 barbarity1706 inelegance1726 inelegancy1727 scabrousness1727 asperity1779 crudity1885 ineloquence1894 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Scabrousness, Ruggedness, Roughness. 1847 Fraser's Mag. 36 519 What a contemporary of Shakspeare called the scabrousness of our elder literature. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1572
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