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Definitioner
Substantiv
- (disease) 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.
Adjektiv
- Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy.
- Contemptible, despicable, low, disgustingly mean.
Exempel
- Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.
- whatsoever man [...] be scurvy or scabbed
- a scurvy trick; a scurvy knave
- that scurvy custom of taking tobacco
- What a pied ninny's this! Thou scurvy patch!
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