scabby.
Affected with scabs; full of scabs.
Meaning & usage
Affected with scabs; full of scabs.
Diseased with the scab (mange): mangy.
Having a blotched, uneven appearance.
Injured by the attachment of barnacles to the carapace of a shell.
Working against union policies, working to bust unions; in particular, being a scab (worker who crosses a union picket line).
stingy; scrounging.
The chipper was a bit scabby on the vinegar today.
I lent you a fiver last week and you still haven’t paid me back, you scabby bastard!
Where this word comes from
From Middle English scabby, scabbie, equivalent to scab + -y. Doublet of shabby.
Try it on your idea.
scabby has 6 characters. Say it out loud, try it alongside a description of your project, and see whether its meaning fits what you want to create.
These are naming prompts. Meanings and pronunciation can vary; existing brand and domain uses have not been checked.
Explore the name generatorA word with a source.
Definitions, grammatical labels, IPA, etymology and examples: Wiktionary contributors, extracted by Kaikki / Wiktextract. Adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected fields and authored examples are shown; third-party quotations and audio are omitted. See contributor history.
Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.