scrubby

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English

Etymology

From scrub +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

scrubby (comparative scrubbier, superlative scrubbiest)

  1. Covered with or consisting of scrub.
    a scrubby landscape
  2. Inferior in size or quality.
    scrubby crops
    scrubby cattle
    • 1883, Hargrave Jennings, The Childishness and Brutality of the Time:
      This sort of literary slop-work will not suffice for your walking in the roads of life to any good purpose. It is bad work. It is scrubby work.
    • 1897 July 17, “Potash. ”, in The Farmer's Guide: A Weekly Journal of Progressive Agriculture‎, volume 9, number 29, Huntington, Indiana: The Guide Publishing Company, page 6:
      Too little Potash in the fertilizer used produces a "scrubby" crop, just as a lack of sufficient grain fed to stock means a "scrubby" animal. Free: An illustrated book which tells what Potash is, how it should be used, and how much Potash a well-balanced fertilizer should contain, is sent free to all applicants. Send your address. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 92 Nassau St., New York.
    • 1957 November 18, Tex Maule, “A+$+X+F+B = Invincibility. This Formula Belongs to Oklahoma, Where It Was Developed to Equate With Unbeatable Football. It Is Explained Below”, in Sports Illustrated‎:
      The red clay of Oklahoma and the sands of the west Texas desert country produce scrubby crops, oil and football players. For the hardy, lean and tough people who inhabit this country, the crops are a last resort, oil a hopeful dream and football a religion.

Translations

Noun

scrubby (plural scrubbies)

  1. diminutive of scrubber: a small scrubber for light washing tasks.
    dish scrubby
    shower scrubby
  2. (informal) a loofah.

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