shabby
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- Stati Uniti//ˈʃæbi//
Of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect; scruffy.
aggettivo
- 1
Of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect; scruffy.
They lived in a tiny apartment, with some old, shabby furniture.
[A]s there was a stream of people pouring into a shabby house not far from the entrance, he waited until they had made their way in, […]
[C]ommonplace books are generally new, or at least in fine bindings. And here was a shabby little old book, such as, if it had been commonplace, would not have been likely to be the companion of a young lady at the bottom of a quarry— […]
[They] lived […] in one of the shabbiest streets in the debatable land between Pimlico and Chelsea—by courtesy, South Belgravia.
- 2
Of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing.
The fellow arrived looking rather shabby after journeying so far.
The ſame gentleman, vvhenever he vvanted credit for a ſuit of cloaths, alvvays made the propoſal in a laced coat; for he found by experience, that, if he appeared ſhabby on theſe occaſions, his taylor had taken an oath againſt truſting; […]
She told her name, and vvas ſhevvn, by a little ſhabby foot-boy, into a parlour.
He was an affectionate brother, always glad to do a good turn to his sisters—who lived with a shabby old half-pay father, […]
- 3
figuratoOf a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean; also, not generous; stingy, tight-fisted.
shabby treatment
"A thousand dollars are money, my father used to say when he drove fat oxen to market," replied John Wilde, in a mocking tone; "but it will not leave my hands for that shabby price; and, for my own part, it may ornament the foot of my daughter's doll."
It was voted a shabby excuse.
I, being more of a native, and familiar with their customs, knew that this shabby present was an insult to us.
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figuratoPoor in quality; also, showing little effort or talent.
His painting is not too shabby.
[M]y Lord Duke's entertainments were both ſeldom and ſhabby […]
So unlooked-for a paradox required to be defended by the strongest arguments: who, then, would expect such shabby, not arguments, but hints of arguments, as the author presents us with?
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arcaicoPoor in quality; also, showing little effort or talent. Of the pulse: thready, weak.
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figuratoPoor in quality; also, showing little effort or talent. Of weather: wet and dreary.
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figuratoPoor in quality; also, showing little effort or talent. Chiefly of sheep: affected by shab or scab (“a skin disease”); scabby.
Etimologia
The adjective is derived from shab (“(obsolete except UK, dialectal) scaly skin disease; skin disease of sheep; crust forming over wound, scab”) + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives). The verb is derived from the adjective. Cognates * Dutch schabbig (“poor, needy, shabby”) * Middle High German schebic (modern German schäbig (“shabby”)) * Middle Low German schabbich (“miserable”) (modern Low German schabbig, schäbbig) * Scots shabby (“in poor health, ill”) * Swedish sjabbig (“shabby, mangy, scruffy”), skabbig (“scabby”)
verbo
- 1
To make (something) shabby (adjective sense 1); to shabbify.
- 2
To become shabby; to shabbify.
You'll be one of those tough, square, solid middle-aged men, like a shabbying brown bear, your golden crew-cut greying judiciously at the temples.
Forme
- comparativo
- shabbier
- superlativo
- shabbiest
- passato
- shabbied
- participio passato
- shabbied
- participio presente
- shabbying
- 3ª persona singolare
- shabbies
shabby · Of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect; scruffy.
shack · A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.Shack · A surname.shade · Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.