scrubbyadj.¹

Brit.

/ˈskrʌbi/, U.S.

/ˈskrəbi/

Etymology: < scrub n.¹ + -y suffix¹.

1. Stunted, under-developed.

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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by poor growth > [adjective] > stunted or underdeveloped

wanthriven1508

scrubby1591

unthriven1680

nithered1691

strunty1756

stinted1759

starved1785

nirled1808

scrunty1811

scrawny1883

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > smaller than usual or standard size

petty1393

small1525

scrubby1591

undersized1706

underlinga1722

underline1750

under-size1820

manikin1840

underhanded1856

small1877

sawed-off1887

sawn-off1936

1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xiii. xxxiv. 98 A short thicke planke stood on a scrubby post, That seru'd them for a boord to drinke and eat.

1711 J. Swift Baucis & Philemon in Misc. 18 The other Tree was griev'd: Grew Scrubby [1709 Surly], dy'd a-top, was stunted.

1794 W. Pearce Agric. Berks. 55 Woods... The scrubby stuff is..burnt into charcoal.

1860 F. C. L. Wraxall Life in Sea ii. 30 The ground is..covered with scrubby lichens.

2. Covered with scrub or brushwood. Also, consisting of or in the form of scrub.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [adjective] > of or consisting of brushwood or scrub

frithy1523

scrubbya1687

scrub1749

shaggy1789

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded > types of

bushya1382

ramagea1500

boskya1616

brakya1637

brushy1658

brushed1666

scrubbya1687

pine barrenc1721

bush-grown1837

stumpy1838

bush-skirted1858

bushed1868

bush-covered1873

bush-fringed1891

bush-clad1909

primary forest1909

a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 115 About two Millions of Rocky, Boggy, and Scrubby Pasture, commonly call'd Unprofitable.

1835 J. Batman Jrnl. in K. Cornwallis Panorama New World (1859) I. App. i. 373 The country, however, proved too scrubby to enable the dogs to have a fair run.

1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career iii. 14 The school was situated on a wild scrubby hill.

1936 D. McCowan Animals Canad. Rockies xvi. 144 It finally reached a haven in the scrubby thicket.

1957 M. Spark Comforters ix. 233 He saw the bits of paper come to rest, some on the scrubby ground, some among the deep marsh weeds.

1971 Sci. Amer. Sept. 130/1 It takes less energy to support a pound of biomass in a mature tropical rain forest than it does in the grassy or scrubby forest stages that precede maturity.

1979 ‘D. Kyle’ Green River High vi. 82 We were edging on to scrubby land, patches of low, tangling heather.

3. Insignificant, shabby, paltry, of poor appearance.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible

unworthlyc1230

wretcha1250

seely1297

vilec1320

not worth a cress (kerse)1377

the value of a rushc1380

threadbarec1412

wretched1450

miserable?a1513

rascal1519

prettya1522

not worth a whistlea1529

pegrall1535

plack1539

pelting1540

scald1542

sleeveless1551

baggage1553

paltering1553

piddling1559

twopenny1560

paltry1565

rubbish1565

baggagely1573

pelfish1577

halfpenny1579

palting1579

baubling1581

three-halfpenny1581

pitiful1582

triobolar1585

squirting1589

not worth a lousea1592

hedge1596

cheap1597

peddling1597

dribbling1600

mean1600

rascally1600

three-farthingc1600

draughty1602

dilute1605

copper1609

peltry?a1610

threepenny1613

pelsy1631

pimping1640

triobolary1644

pigwidgeon1647

dustya1649

fiddling1652

puddlinga1653

insignificant1658

piteous1667

snotty1681

scrubbed1688

dishonourable1699

scrub1711

footy1720

fouty1722

rubbishing1731

chuck-farthing1748

rubbishy1753

shabby1753

scrubby1754

poxya1758

rubbishly1777

waff-like1808

trinkety1817

meanish1831

one-eyed1843

twiddling1844

measly1847

poking1850

picayunish1852

vild1853

picayune1856

snide1859

two-cent1859

rummagy1872

faddling1883

finicking1886

slushy1889

twopence halfpenny1890

jerk1893

pissy1922

crappy1928

two-bit1932

piddly1933

chickenshit1934

pissing1937

penny packet1943

farkakte1960

pony1964

gay1978

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective] > contemptible

unworthc893

unwrastc893

littleOE

narrow-hearteda1200

wretcha1200

unworthya1240

wretchedc1250

un-i-wrastc1275

bad1276

lechera1300

feeblea1325

despisablea1340

villain1340

contemptiblec1384

lousyc1386

caitiff1393

brothelyc1400

roinousa1425

poor1425

sevenpennyc1475

nasty1477

peakish1519

filthy1533

despectuous1541

beggary1542

scald1542

shitten?1545

disdainfula1547

contemptuous1549

despicable1553

skit-brained?1553

contemniblea1555

vile1560

sluttish1561

queer1567

scornful1570

scallardc1575

tinkerly?1576

worthless1576

beggarly?1577

paltry1578

halfpenny1579

dog bolt1580

pitiful1582

sneaking1582

triobolar1585

wormisha1586

baddy1586

dudgeon1592

measled1596

packstaff1598

roguey1598

roguish1601

contemptful1608

grovelling1608

lightly1608

disdainable1611

purulent1611

snotty-nose1622

vilipendious1630

cittern-headed1638

wormy1640

pissabed1643

triobolary1644

disparageable1648

blue-bellied1652

unestimable1656

scullion1658

piteous1667

dirty1670

shabbed1674

shabby1679

snotty1681

snotty-nosed1682

mucky1683

bollocky1694

scoundrel1700

scaldeda1704

sneaking1703

ficulnean1716

unsolid1731

pitiable1753

scrubby1754

inimitable1798

scrubbish1798

worm-likea1807

small1824

lowlife1827

ketty1828

skunkish1831

yellow-bellied1833

scaly1843

cockroachya1845

wutless1853

nigger1859

trashy1862

low-down1872

cruddy1877

shitty1879

tinhorn1886

blithering1889

motherfucking1890

snidey1890

pilgarlicky1894

shitass1895

shoddy1918

yah boo1921

bitching1929

shit-faced1932

turdish1936

fricking1937

jerk-off1937

chickenshit1940

sheg-up1941

snot-nosed1941

jerky1944

mother-loving1948

scroungy1948

fecking1952

pissant1952

shit-kicking1953

shit-eating1956

bumboclaat1957

rassclaat1957

shit-headed1959

farkakte1960

shithouse1966

daggy1967

dipshit1968

scuzzy1969

bloodclaat1971

bitch ass1972

wanky1972

streelish1974

twatty1975

twattish1976

dweeby1988

douchey1991

wank1991

cockish1996

the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [adjective] > of inferior quality or value or appearance

poorc1300

vile1526

mangya1529

fine1565

palterlya1637

scrubby1754

nice1798

shabby1805

waff-like1808

neat1824

chronic1861

tacky1862

shamblya1937

tatty1940

low-rent1966

scrungy1974

1754 J. Sackville Let. 4 Sept. in 16th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. Manuscripts: Rep. MSS. Mrs. Stopford-Sackville I. 40 in Parl. Papers 1904 (Cd. 1892) 1 He still continues to persecute me, and acts in regard to me in a most scrubby manner.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. v. xii. 160 To be treated like a little scrubby apprentice?

1860 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 35 I am so sorry to put you off with such a scrubby letter.

1894 F. M. Elliot Rom. Gossip i. 22 They were but a very scrubby mixture of the lowest peasants.

1913 J. London Valley of Moon I. x Honest to God, Saxon, he don't like all his horses as much as I like the last hair on the last tail of the scrubbiest of the bunch.

1967 Southerly 27 75 It would work out, as it always did, under a cover of scrubby banality.

1975 New Yorker 5 May 18/3 (advt.) A great deal of talent has been badly used, though James Caan has some good scenes as scrubby, anxious Billy Rose.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	scrubby
释义	scrubbyadj.¹ Brit. /ˈskrʌbi/, U.S. /ˈskrəbi/ Etymology: < scrub n.¹ + -y suffix¹. 1. Stunted, under-developed. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by poor growth > [adjective] > stunted or underdeveloped wanthriven1508 scrubby1591 unthriven1680 nithered1691 strunty1756 stinted1759 starved1785 nirled1808 scrunty1811 scrawny1883 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > smaller than usual or standard size petty1393 small1525 scrubby1591 undersized1706 underlinga1722 underline1750 under-size1820 manikin1840 underhanded1856 small1877 sawed-off1887 sawn-off1936 1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xiii. xxxiv. 98 A short thicke planke stood on a scrubby post, That seru'd them for a boord to drinke and eat. 1711 J. Swift Baucis & Philemon in Misc. 18 The other Tree was griev'd: Grew Scrubby [1709 Surly], dy'd a-top, was stunted. 1794 W. Pearce Agric. Berks. 55 Woods... The scrubby stuff is..burnt into charcoal. 1860 F. C. L. Wraxall Life in Sea ii. 30 The ground is..covered with scrubby lichens. 2. Covered with scrub or brushwood. Also, consisting of or in the form of scrub. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [adjective] > of or consisting of brushwood or scrub frithy1523 scrubbya1687 scrub1749 shaggy1789 the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded > types of bushya1382 ramagea1500 boskya1616 brakya1637 brushy1658 brushed1666 scrubbya1687 pine barrenc1721 bush-grown1837 stumpy1838 bush-skirted1858 bushed1868 bush-covered1873 bush-fringed1891 bush-clad1909 primary forest1909 a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 115 About two Millions of Rocky, Boggy, and Scrubby Pasture, commonly call'd Unprofitable. 1835 J. Batman Jrnl. in K. Cornwallis Panorama New World (1859) I. App. i. 373 The country, however, proved too scrubby to enable the dogs to have a fair run. 1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career iii. 14 The school was situated on a wild scrubby hill. 1936 D. McCowan Animals Canad. Rockies xvi. 144 It finally reached a haven in the scrubby thicket. 1957 M. Spark Comforters ix. 233 He saw the bits of paper come to rest, some on the scrubby ground, some among the deep marsh weeds. 1971 Sci. Amer. Sept. 130/1 It takes less energy to support a pound of biomass in a mature tropical rain forest than it does in the grassy or scrubby forest stages that precede maturity. 1979 ‘D. Kyle’ Green River High vi. 82 We were edging on to scrubby land, patches of low, tangling heather. 3. Insignificant, shabby, paltry, of poor appearance. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible unworthlyc1230 wretcha1250 seely1297 vilec1320 not worth a cress (kerse)1377 the value of a rushc1380 threadbarec1412 wretched1450 miserable?a1513 rascal1519 prettya1522 not worth a whistlea1529 pegrall1535 plack1539 pelting1540 scald1542 sleeveless1551 baggage1553 paltering1553 piddling1559 twopenny1560 paltry1565 rubbish1565 baggagely1573 pelfish1577 halfpenny1579 palting1579 baubling1581 three-halfpenny1581 pitiful1582 triobolar1585 squirting1589 not worth a lousea1592 hedge1596 cheap1597 peddling1597 dribbling1600 mean1600 rascally1600 three-farthingc1600 draughty1602 dilute1605 copper1609 peltry?a1610 threepenny1613 pelsy1631 pimping1640 triobolary1644 pigwidgeon1647 dustya1649 fiddling1652 puddlinga1653 insignificant1658 piteous1667 snotty1681 scrubbed1688 dishonourable1699 scrub1711 footy1720 fouty1722 rubbishing1731 chuck-farthing1748 rubbishy1753 shabby1753 scrubby1754 poxya1758 rubbishly1777 waff-like1808 trinkety1817 meanish1831 one-eyed1843 twiddling1844 measly1847 poking1850 picayunish1852 vild1853 picayune1856 snide1859 two-cent1859 rummagy1872 faddling1883 finicking1886 slushy1889 twopence halfpenny1890 jerk1893 pissy1922 crappy1928 two-bit1932 piddly1933 chickenshit1934 pissing1937 penny packet1943 farkakte1960 pony1964 gay1978 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective] > contemptible unworthc893 unwrastc893 littleOE narrow-hearteda1200 wretcha1200 unworthya1240 wretchedc1250 un-i-wrastc1275 bad1276 lechera1300 feeblea1325 despisablea1340 villain1340 contemptiblec1384 lousyc1386 caitiff1393 brothelyc1400 roinousa1425 poor1425 sevenpennyc1475 nasty1477 peakish1519 filthy1533 despectuous1541 beggary1542 scald1542 shitten?1545 disdainfula1547 contemptuous1549 despicable1553 skit-brained?1553 contemniblea1555 vile1560 sluttish1561 queer1567 scornful1570 scallardc1575 tinkerly?1576 worthless1576 beggarly?1577 paltry1578 halfpenny1579 dog bolt1580 pitiful1582 sneaking1582 triobolar1585 wormisha1586 baddy1586 dudgeon1592 measled1596 packstaff1598 roguey1598 roguish1601 contemptful1608 grovelling1608 lightly1608 disdainable1611 purulent1611 snotty-nose1622 vilipendious1630 cittern-headed1638 wormy1640 pissabed1643 triobolary1644 disparageable1648 blue-bellied1652 unestimable1656 scullion1658 piteous1667 dirty1670 shabbed1674 shabby1679 snotty1681 snotty-nosed1682 mucky1683 bollocky1694 scoundrel1700 scaldeda1704 sneaking1703 ficulnean1716 unsolid1731 pitiable1753 scrubby1754 inimitable1798 scrubbish1798 worm-likea1807 small1824 lowlife1827 ketty1828 skunkish1831 yellow-bellied1833 scaly1843 cockroachya1845 wutless1853 nigger1859 trashy1862 low-down1872 cruddy1877 shitty1879 tinhorn1886 blithering1889 motherfucking1890 snidey1890 pilgarlicky1894 shitass1895 shoddy1918 yah boo1921 bitching1929 shit-faced1932 turdish1936 fricking1937 jerk-off1937 chickenshit1940 sheg-up1941 snot-nosed1941 jerky1944 mother-loving1948 scroungy1948 fecking1952 pissant1952 shit-kicking1953 shit-eating1956 bumboclaat1957 rassclaat1957 shit-headed1959 farkakte1960 shithouse1966 daggy1967 dipshit1968 scuzzy1969 bloodclaat1971 bitch ass1972 wanky1972 streelish1974 twatty1975 twattish1976 dweeby1988 douchey1991 wank1991 cockish1996 the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [adjective] > of inferior quality or value or appearance poorc1300 vile1526 mangya1529 fine1565 palterlya1637 scrubby1754 nice1798 shabby1805 waff-like1808 neat1824 chronic1861 tacky1862 shamblya1937 tatty1940 low-rent1966 scrungy1974 1754 J. Sackville Let. 4 Sept. in 16th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. Manuscripts: Rep. MSS. Mrs. Stopford-Sackville I. 40 in Parl. Papers 1904 (Cd. 1892) 1 He still continues to persecute me, and acts in regard to me in a most scrubby manner. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. v. xii. 160 To be treated like a little scrubby apprentice? 1860 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 35 I am so sorry to put you off with such a scrubby letter. 1894 F. M. Elliot Rom. Gossip i. 22 They were but a very scrubby mixture of the lowest peasants. 1913 J. London Valley of Moon I. x Honest to God, Saxon, he don't like all his horses as much as I like the last hair on the last tail of the scrubbiest of the bunch. 1967 Southerly 27 75 It would work out, as it always did, under a cover of scrubby banality. 1975 New Yorker 5 May 18/3 (advt.) A great deal of talent has been badly used, though James Caan has some good scenes as scrubby, anxious Billy Rose. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scrubbyadj.² Brit. /ˈskrʌbi/, U.S. /ˈskrəbi/ Etymology: < scrub v.¹ + -y suffix¹. Rough, bristly. ΘΚΠ 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 1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin xl. 411 ‘Well, I should like to see her’, drawled out Merl, as he smoothed down his scrubby mustachios. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.¹1591adj.²1856
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