scabbedadj.
/skabd//ˈskabɪd/ Now rare.
1. Having the scab or a similar skin-disease; covered with scab or scabs; = scabby adj. 1.absolute.1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope vii Of euery lame, scabbed, & of alle suche..he tooke a peny.† e. transferred and figurative. Obsolete.
a. Of human beings; ( scabbed head, ringworm of the scalp, tinea capitis).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [adjective] > of disease: scurfy or scabby > afflicted with
reofeOE
scabbed1338
scalled1340
crustyc1400
roynishc1400
roinousc1450
leprous?1457
scurfy1483
scabby1526
scurvya1529
shurvya1529
scald1529
scally1530
escharous1543
skalfering1561
scalded1568
morphewed1598
scaldy1598
scall?1602
pearled1627
scurfed1646
scruffy1660
reefy1684
porriginous1778
lepric1855
dandruffy1858
farreous1884
peeling1893
1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 282 Þou scabbed Scotte, þi nek þi hotte, þe deuelle it breke.
c1340 Nominale (Skeat) 206 W. hath the wriste scabbut.
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 186 & þus þou schalt do manie daies til þe skyn be more scabbid þan it was.
1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton f iv A wonderful and foule woman ryghte olde that was scabbed.
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope vii The porter..sawe his scabbed hede.
1542 in W. Cramond Rec. Elgin (1903) I. 67 Calling of the said James scabbit lyþer carlle.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. ii. vi. 112 Boyes in Germany are so often scabbed, because they vse exercise presently after meates.
1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical v. 49 Some of them having Scab'd, or Pimpled Faces, wear a Thousand Patches to hide them.
1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. ii. 586 The most obstinate of all the eruptions incident to children are, the tinea capitis, or scabbed head, and chilblains.
b. Of animals.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of animals generally > [adjective] > skin diseases
scabbedc1300
mangeda1425
mangya1425
mange1537
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2505 Þei garte bringe þe mere sone, Skabbed, and ful iuele o bone.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xxvii. 1171 Þe scabbede hound is violentliche ydrawe out of þe dung hille with a rope..bounde aboute his nekke.
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) ii. civ. 114 For riht as a scabbed beste hateth hors comb,..riht so hate j techinge.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxii Yf any shepe be scabbed the shepherde may perceyue it by ye byting, rubbing, or scratting with his horne.
1679 London Gaz. No. 1403/4 One gray Nag..having scabbed heels and malenders.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 31. ⁋3 This great Hero drooped like a scabbed Sheep.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Scabbed heels or frush, in the manege, is an eating putrefaction upon a horse's frush.
c. Of plants.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [adjective] > of or having disease caused by insect
cankeredc1522
cankerous1613
cankery1681
scabbed1693
grubbed1843
sedged1844
phylloxerated1879
phylloxerized1881
root-knot1888
stem-sick1890
scaly1894
1693 W. Bowles tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires v. 81 To you such scab'd harsh Fruit is giv'n, as raw Young Souldiers at their Exercisings gnaw.
a1735 Earl of Haddington Short Treat. Forest-trees 10 in J. G. Reid Scots Gardiner (1756) In bad soil, they [sc. elms] are nasty, scabbed and hide-bound things.
d. Proverbially and allusively: see quots.
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?c1450 in G. J. Aungier Hist. & Antiq. Syon Monastery (1840) 262 Leste one skabbed schepe infecte al the flokke.
1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance i. iv. f. xxvii The..puttynge the scabbed heretyques oute of the clene flocke.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Ev A scalde hors is good ynough for a scabde squir.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. H2 O scabbed scald squire (Scythian Gabriell) as thou art.
1610 A. Cooke Pope Ioane 5 Baronius brands him, not meerely for a skabd sheepe, but for an heretical skabby beast.
1651 G. Herbert Jacula Prudentum 1113 A scabbed horse cannot abide the comb.
a1815 W. Hutton Life & Hist. Family (1816) 367 With all these qualifications she was tinctured with a most unaccountable species of paltry pride. Thus one scabbed sheep spoils the flock.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > [adjective] > rough
unsmeetheOE
sharpc893
rowOE
reofOE
roughOE
unplaina1393
harsha1400
scrofc1400
stourc1400
ruggyc1405
asperous1547
harshy1582
shagged1589
horrid1590
unsmooth1598
gross1606
asperate1623
brute1627
scabbed1630
sleazy1644
rasping1656
scaber1657
asper1681
shaggy1693
gruff1697
grating1766
hackly1794
ruvid1837
scrubby1856
unkind1866
raspy1882
ruckly1923
sandpapery1957
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adjective]
wanmola1325
rudea1393
lewdc1425
rustyc1425
unpolisheda1450
roidc1485
inelegant1509
gross1513
rough?1520
barbarous1526
ineloquent1532
inconcinnate1534
crabby1550
crabbed1561
uneloquent1565
unelegant1570
unkempt1579
unfiled1590
illiterate1598
unconceived1599
aliterate1624
incompta1628
scabbed1630
uncombed1633
uncompt1633
uncouth1694
coarse1699
slatternly1783
crude1786
warty1822
stumbling1859
1630 W. Davenant Cruell Brother v. K 2 b Hide me swelling Hills! rough, and scabbed Rocks.
1674 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd ii. 72 In so rough and scabbed a Latine, that a man must have long nails..to distinguish betwixt the Skin and the Disease, the Faults and the Grammar.
f. Iron-founding. Blistered with ‘scabs’.
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1881 C. Wylie Iron Founding 14 The casting is liable to be faulty, or ‘scabbed’.
2. As a term of contempt: ‘Scurvy’, mean, contemptible. Obsolete.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > [adjective]
theowlikec1175
wickc1175
wretcha1200
lechera1300
vilea1300
feeblea1325
brothely1330
caitiffa1400
roinousa1425
basec1450
harlotry1486
filthy1533
brockish1546
vild1568
tinkerly?1576
scabbed?1577
miscreant1593
unnoble1593
slavish1597
rascally1600
roguish1601
sordidous1602
facinoriousa1616
scullion1658
dirty1670
shabbed1674
shabby1679
scoundrel1681
scabby1712
verminating1720
small1824
low-down1865
verminiferous1895
ragtime1917
ribby1936
raunchy1937
scungy1966
?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 131 This scabbed and scuruie companye (of Dauncers).
1597 G. Harvey Trimming T. Nashe in Wks. (1885) III. 25 Thou mayest well praye for the duall number, thou scabbed, scalde, lame, halting adiectiue.
1794 Har'st Rig cxxx. 40 For our sma' wage, O, wha wad bide, For scabbit aughtpence! woe betide That we shoul'd shear.
Derivatives
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adverb]
hokerly?c1225
caitiflyc1425
contemptiblya1438
villainously1484
scabbedly1548
sneakishly1560
miserably1585
contemnedly1594
pitifully1601
dirtilya1631
worthlessly1637
mangilya1640
projectedly1660
despicablya1691
shabbily1755
unsolidly1755
worm-like1814
scrubbily1891
motherfucking1966
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > [adverb]
arghlyc1000
vilelyc1290
vilea1400
brothelyc1400
caitiflyc1425
scabbedly1548
vildly1575
unsela1583
basely1593
unnobly1595
dirtilya1631
shabbily1755
base-mindedly1851
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clxxxviiv The great wether [sc. Wolsey] which is of late fallen..so craftely, so scabedly, ye & so vntruly iuggeled with the kyng.
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