scabby

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈskæb.i/
• Rhymes: -æbi

scabby (comparative scabbier, superlative scabbiest)

1. Affected with scabs; full of scabs.
   • Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

     Her wrizled skin, as rough as maple rind,
     So scabby was, that would have loath'd all womankind.

2. Diseased with the scab, or mange; mangy.
3. (printing) Having a blotched, uneven appearance.
4. Injured by the attachment of barnacles to the carapace of a shell.

• scabby in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• scabby in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.