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scabbish

adj

Etymology

From scab + -ish.

  1. derived from *skabʰ-✻ — “to cut, split, carve, shape”
  2. inherited from *skabbaz✻ — “scab, scabies”
  3. derived from skabb
  4. inherited from sċeabb
  5. inherited from scabb
  6. suffixed as scabbish — “scab + ish”

Definitions

  1. scabby

  2. Alternative form of scabious (“the plant”).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for scabbish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA