Scrubby
['skrʌbɪ] or ['skrʌbi]
Definition
(superl.) Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur.
Typed by Bert
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Vile, mean, pitiful, poor, shabby, sorry, miserable, despicable.[2]. Small, diminutive, puny, stunted, dwarfed, dwarfish, pygmy, pygmean.
Typist: Stacey
Examples
- No trees were to be seen, nor any vegetable growth save a poor brown scrubby moss, freezing in the chinks of rock. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He is a mild, bald, timid man with a shining head and a scrubby clump of black hair sticking out at the back. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- For the scrubby, shabby, whining I have no taste; for literature and the arts I have. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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