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单词 scammel
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scammeladj.

Etymology: Perhaps connected with scamble v.: compare Scottish skemmel ‘a tall, thin, ungainly person’ (Jamieson); also dialect scrammel ‘a lean, gaunt, ill-favoured person or animal’ ( Eng. Dial. Dict.).
Obsolete. rare.
Lean, scraggy.
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the world > animals > animal body > [adjective] > thin or weak
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1658 tr. G. della Porta Nat. Magick ii. ix. 39 That [mule] which is begotten of the wilde Asse, cometh nothing behind the other, but only that it is unruly and stubborn, and somewhat scammel, like the Sire [L. nisi, quod..strigosum patris proferet habitum].
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