scabby

Bedeutung (Englisch)

  1. Affected with scabs; full of scabs.
  2. Diseased with the scab (mange): mangy.
  3. Having a blotched, uneven appearance.
  4. Injured by the attachment of barnacles to the carapace of a shell.
  5. Working against union policies, working to bust unions; in particular, being a scab (worker who crosses a union picket line).
  6. (Ireland, UK, slang) Stingy; scrounging.

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Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/ˈskæb.i/
Etymologie (Englisch)

In summary

From Middle English scabby, scabbie, equivalent to scab + -y. Doublet of shabby.

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