scabbed

scabbed

English

Verb

scabbed

  1. simple past and past participle of scab

Adjective

scabbed (comparative more scabbed, superlative most scabbed)

  1. Affected or covered with scabs.
  2. (by extension) Vile; worthless.
    Synonyms: paltry, scornworthy; no good, valueless; see also Thesaurus:despicable, Thesaurus:worthless
    • 1693, “Satire V”, in John Dryden, transl., The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, and of Aulus Persius Flaccus, volume 1, London: Stanhope Press, translation of Satires by Juvenal, published 1812, page 182:
      To you such scab’d harsh fruit is given, as raw / Young soldiers at their exercisings gnaw,

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