Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of scab
comparative more scabbed · superlative most scabbed
- Affected or covered with scabs.
- broadlyVile; worthless.
To you such scab’d harsh fruit is given, as raw / Young soldiers at their exercisings gnaw,
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 182Synonyms: paltry, scornworthy, no good, valueless, abject, filthy, base, beggarly
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