Adjective, : a scabby trick. From Dictionary.com.
"The sheep get scabby from a microbe under the skin, which causes them to itch fearfully, and they lose their wool.". From Wordnik.com. [Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography] Reference
They'd holler at you and call you "scabby" and things like that. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with George and Tessie Dyer, March 5, 1980. Interview H-0161. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
He wears faded blue jeans and a scabby white sweater. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Whether we be old and bald Or young with scabby knees. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone]
He shuddered as he felt cracked, scabby, sunburned skin. From Wordnik.com. [The Fire In His Hands]
"Something too good for you, scabby-head!" cries my boy. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Redskins]
And scabby if we've been anywhere near the Corexit dumps. From Wordnik.com. [Karen Dalton-Beninato: A Sign of the Times in Generation Gulf] Reference
The skin appears moist, later dirty, scabby and thickened. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
His face was carved from unpolished wood, scabby and black. From Wordnik.com. [Orphans of Chaos] Reference
In bad cases the hair falls out and the skin becomes scabby. From Wordnik.com. [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference
It's just a scabby old dagger with the power to reverse time. From Wordnik.com. [Prince of Persia: is this a dragger I see before me?] Reference
His swollen, scabby lip begins to curl as he screams his case. From Wordnik.com. [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference
First, her slippers fell away, showing her scabby, dirty feet. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Destiny]
Not that that matters seeing as im getting scabby presents. lol. From Wordnik.com. [sierrazen Diary Entry] Reference
They are exiles now because of an outbreak of scabby mouth on board. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2003] Reference
I was better off not looking in the corners of that scabby apartment. From Wordnik.com. [Randy Susan Meyers: How Ted Kennedy Helped Me Home] Reference
Basin, form a scabby legacy from the recent past, and a less esthetic. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior] Reference
He has a pair of scabby Nike trainers on his feet that are almost dead. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
My fingers are actually scabby, that's how immersed in my music I've been. From Wordnik.com. [dragonwench Diary Entry] Reference
He pointed, and, as he did so, another weak groan fled Beck's scabby lips. From Wordnik.com. [The Heirs of Babylon]
They can't find a home because of a nasty outbreak of scabby mouth on board. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2003] Reference
He curses, jerks me up, his scabby face in mine, his eyes glittering like ice. From Wordnik.com. [Spring Melt] Reference
He took the thing, hefting it, a bit of color coming back into his scabby face. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Its grey stucco was peeling off, giving the building a scabby, down-at-heel look. From Wordnik.com. [Deadline for Murder]
I now live in an upcoming (but still common and scabby for now) area of Gateshead. From Wordnik.com. [the-moo Diary Entry] Reference
In a few years he acquires a herd of his own, a fine herd, not a scabby sheep in the bunch. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Plains] Reference
This is the real war, a scabby little affair where women and children are the foot soldiers. From Wordnik.com. [The Real War On Drugs] Reference
He looked down at his hands, which were covered in blood, drying now to a dull, scabby brown. From Wordnik.com. [Lion Of Macedon]
The result is a scabby lesion, or plaque, that can foster blood clots and impede circulation. From Wordnik.com. [Cardiac Contagion] Reference
Through gaps in the jackets Ravna could see scabby splotches, where the fur had been rubbed away. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
His clothes were rumpled, and his scabby, unshaven face made him look like he'd slept in an alley. From Wordnik.com. [The 5th Horseman]
But no matter how I can tell myself these things, it doesn't change the fact that my wrists are raw and scabby. From Wordnik.com. [dragonwench Diary Entry] Reference
Chilblains you may treat, and bone-shave, ringworm, and the scaldings; even scabby sheep may limp the better for your strikings. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone] Reference
Wretchedness waiting for its victim, with a smile of joyful, and yet dull recognition about its scabby mouth and in its rheumy eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
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