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Definition of Scabby
1. Adjective. Covered with scabs.
Definition of Scabby
1. a. Affected with scabs; full of scabs.
Definition of Scabby
1. Adjective. Affected with scabs; full of scabs. ¹
2. Adjective. Diseased with the scab, or mange; mangy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scabby
1. covered with scabs [adj -BIER, -BIEST] : SCABBILY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scabby
Literary usage of Scabby
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee by George Amos Dorsey (1904)
"Every time scabby-Bull shot at the magpie the magpie would make a screeching
noise and ... While the magpie was leading scabby-Bull away from the timber, ..."
2. Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society by American Folklore Society (1904)
"Every time scabby-Bull shot at the magpie the magpie would make a screeching
noise and ... While the magpie was leading scabby-Bull away from the timber, ..."
3. Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee by George Amos Dorsey (1904)
"Warrior sat down, took aim at the deer, and ; about to shoot when he thought of
scabby-Bull. Then he turned und and looked in the direction where ..."
4. The Works of Flavius Josephus...: With Three Dissertations, Concerning Jesus by Flavius Josephus, William Whiston (1830)
"His words are these: "The people of the Jews being leprous and scabby, and subject
to certain other kinds of distempers, in the days of ..."
5. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1909)
"Now there was in the camp a very poor young man named scabby- Round-Robe, ...
scabby-Round-Robe always wore a strip of skin around his Lead with two ..."
6. An Introduction to Agriculture by Arthur Aquila Upham (1911)
"How TO TREAT scabby SEED POTATOES " Make the proper solution by pouring one pint of
... If the potatoes are very scabby leave for two and a half hours. ..."
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