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If skin is scabby, it is covered with scabs — those dry, hard little crusts that form over a cut or a sore while it heals. You might say a child’s knee looks scabby after a fall, or that an animal’s ears look scabby. It is a plain, slightly ugly-sounding word, used about skin and animals more than about feelings. This is not the disease , and it is not the same as shabby (old and worn clothes or a tired-looking room), even though those two are old twins that later went different ways.
結痂的、長痂的
組成From Middle English scabby / scabbie, equal to scab + -y. It is a doublet of shabby: the two words come from the same source and later split in meaning.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
scabbyadj/ˈskæb.i/
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Affected with scabs; full of scabs.
- Her wrizled skin, as rough as maple rind, So scabby was, that would have loath'd all womankind.
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Diseased with the scab (mange): mangy.
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mediaprintingpublishingHaving a blotched, uneven appearance.
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Injured by the attachment of barnacles to the carapace of a shell.
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Working against union policies, working to bust unions; in particular, being a scab (worker who crosses a union picket line).
- The police, the governor, and the "scabby" Hearst Examiner "received a tremendous razzing," according to the Waterfront Worker, while all along the line of march "the workers on the sidelines cheered[…]"
- [They're a] scabby right-to-work company and they don't care how much the sharp edges on that dust screw up a guy's lungs.
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slangstingy; 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!
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。