scurvy

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Affected or covered with scurf (“skin disease causing flakes of skin to fall off”) or scabs; scurfy, scabby; also, of or relating to a skin disease causing scurf or to scurvy (noun sense 1).

   “Some wenches come vnlased, / Some hyswyues come vnbrased, / Wyth theyr naked pappes, / That flappes and flappes; / […] / A sorte of foule drabbes / All scuruy with scabbes: […]”

2. sıfat Of growths on plants: resembling scurf; scurfy.
3. sıfat Of a person or thing: disgustingly mean; contemptible, despicable, low.

   “a scurvy knave    a scurvy trick”

4. sıfat Of the way someone is treated: poor, shabby.
5. isim A disease caused by insufficient intake of vitamin C, leading to the formation of livid spots on the skin, spongy gums, loosening of the teeth, and bleeding into the skin and from almost all mucous membranes; (countable, obsolete) an occurrence of this disease.

   “Our legs now vs deceiue, / ſwolne euery ioint withall, / With this diſeaſe, which, by your leaue, / the Scuruie men doe call.”

6. isim A contemptible or despicable person.

   “Row, row you scurvies, / She'll have us boiled in oil. / Move, move those creaking oars, / until you reach Cape soil.”

7. isim A cattle disease, perhaps affecting the skin.