scrubby

  • 11scrubby — adj. Scrubby is used with these nouns: ↑bush …

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  • 12scrubby — scrub|by [ skrʌbi ] adjective 1. ) INFORMAL looking dirty and messy 2. ) covered with small bushes and trees 3. ) scrubby plants are smaller than normal …

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  • 13scrubby — adj Dirty, grimy. She s so scrubby. 1990s …

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  • 14scrubby — Ⅰ. scrub [1] ► VERB (scrubbed, scrubbing) 1) rub hard so as to clean. 2) (scrub up) thoroughly clean one s hands and arms before performing surgery. 3) informal cancel or abandon. ► NOUN …

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  • 15scrubby — scrubbily, adv. scrubbiness, n. /skrub ee/, adj., scrubbier, scrubbiest. 1. low or stunted, as trees. 2. consisting of or covered with scrub, stunted trees, etc. 3. undersized or inferior, as animals. 4. wretched; shabby. [1745 55; SCRUB2 + Y1 …

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  • 16scrubby — adjective a) Covered with or consisting of scrub. b) Inferior in size or quality …

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  • 17scrubby — Synonyms and related words: Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, abject, abominable, afforestational, arborary, arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arborical, arboriform, arrant, atrocious, base, base minded, bedraggled, beggarly, beneath contempt,… …

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  • 18scrubby — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. wretched, shabby; undersize, stunted. See shortness, unimportance. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. inferior, stunted, scrawny; see inadequate 1 , poor 2 . III (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Showing… …

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  • 19scrubby — scrub·by || skrÊŒbɪ adj. wretched, shabby, ragged; insignificant, inferior; dwarf, undersized; covered with small bushes or trees …

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  • 20scrubby — a. 1. Vile, mean, pitiful, poor, shabby, sorry, miserable, despicable, worthless, small, insignificant. 2. Small, diminutive, puny, stunted, dwarfed, dwarfish, pygmy, pygmean …

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