scabby
/ˈskabi
/adjective (scabbier, scabbiest)
1Covered in scabs: her fingers were worn and scabby figurative they raced across the scabby grass down to the mill...
- Francis Upritchard's scabby shrunken heads are disgustingly ugly - bruised, green skin, old teeth, yucky dandruffy hair.
- So I used to go to interviews looking like I had been sleeping under London Bridge - you know, pale, scabby old clothes, interesting, artistic.
- Details surface in the untouched snaps - stretch marks, scabby knees, boob jobs - and so do the posturings, poses and projections behind the sexual self.
2 informal, chiefly Irish & Scottish (Of a person) loathsome; despicable: you thought that scabby creep was cute?...
- You could argue that they are just misunderstood, but let's face it - They are scabby gits.
- And any time a big speech is needed, they just haul out the scabby guy.
- It just exists to keep guitar sales up and basements full of scabby punks pissing their days away into a bucket marked ‘excess’.
Derivatives
scabbiness
Rhymes
- perfectability
- perfectable
- perfect age
- perfect binding
- perfect cadence
- perfect chord
- perfect competition
- perfect crime
- perfectedly
- perfecter
- perfect game
- perfect gas
- perfectibilarian
- perfectibilian
- perfectibilism
- perfectibilist
- perfectibilitarian
- perfectibility
- perfectible
- perfecting cylinder
- perfecting machine
- perfecting press
- perfection
- perfectional
- perfectionate