shabby

Betekenis

Adj

1. Of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect; scruffy.
2. Of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing.
3. Of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean; also, not generous; stingy, tight-fisted.
4. Poor in quality; also, showing little effort or talent.
5. Poor in quality; also, showing little effort or talent.
6. Poor in quality; also, showing little effort or talent.
7. Poor in quality; also, showing little effort or talent.

Verb

1. To make (something) shabby (adjective sense 1); to shabbify.
2. To become shabby; to shabbify.

Koppelteken as

shab‧by

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈʃæbi/

Etimologie

The adjective is derived from shab (“(obsolete except UK, dialectal) scaly skin disease; skin disease of sheep; crust forming over wound, scab”) + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives).
The verb is derived from the adjective.
cognates
* Dutch schabbig (“poor, needy, shabby”)
* Middle High German schebic (modern German schäbig (“shabby”))
* Middle Low German schabbich (“miserable”) (modern Low German schabbig, schäbbig)
* Scots shabby (“in poor health, ill”)
* Swedish sjabbig (“shabby, mangy, scruffy”), skabbig (“scabby”)