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▪ I. † ˈscrubbed, a. Obs.
[f. scrub n.1 + -ed2.]
1. Stunted, dwarfed.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. v. i. 163 Now by this hand I gaue it to a youth, A kinde of boy, a little scrubbed boy No higher then thy selfe, the Iudges Clearke. 1607J. Norden Surv. Dial. v. 237 They suffer their sheepe and cattell to bruize them [Furze bushes] when they are young, and so they grow to scrubbed and low tufts, seldome to that perfection that they might. 1723T. Taylor in Portland Papers (Hist. MSS. Comm.) VI. 87 The first wood..consisting all of oaks, but very scrubbed ones. 1835W. Irving Tour Prairies xvii, Straggling forests of the kind of low scrubbed trees already mentioned.
2. Squalid, insignificant. rare—1.
1688Bunyan Heavenly Footman (1724) 72 Consider, therefore, that as bad as thou have got thither; thither went scrubbed, beggarly Lazarus, &c.
Restrict † Obs. to senses in Dict. and add: 3. Covered or overgrown with scrub. With qualifying advb., as densely-scrubbed or heavily-scrubbed. Austral. and N.Z. exc. as scrubbed over.
1870R. P. Whitworth Martin's Bay Settlement 13/1 The land was densely scrubbed with undergrowth. 1899North-Western Advocate (West Devonport, Tasmania) 10 Mar. 3/2 The country..was a succession of undulating, heavily-scrubbed land. 1910Huon Times (Franklin, Tasmania) 5 Nov. 2/5 It was necessary for a gate to be erected owing to the property being densely scrubbed and heavily timbered. 1981Ann. Rep. Berks., Bucks. & Oxfordshire Naturalists' Trust 3/2 The site which has a good display of chalk grassland flowers was heavily scrubbed over, to such an extent that its botanical interest was at stake.
▪ II. scrubbed, ppl. a.|skrʌbd|
[f. scrub v.1 + -ed1.]
Cleaned by scrubbing. Also fig.
1870J. P. Smith Widow Goldsmith's Daughter ii. 19 Chandos and Christabel were presentable children: both..were kept scrubbed and combed, and ‘cleaned up’ within an inch of their lives. 1905E. M. Albanesi Brown Eyes of Mary xvi. 213 The sight of the old kitchen, with its scrubbed boards and red tiles. 1958Listener 18 Dec. 1050/2 ‘People Today’ gave us a fresh, scrubbed and shiny picture of Hawick. |