scurvy
a. 下流的, 卑鄙的, 无礼的 n. 坏血病
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1.
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.
坏血病
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2.
A contemptible or despicable person.
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3.
A cattle disease, perhaps affecting the skin.
废旧 不可数 生物 医学 动物学 引申义
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1.
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).
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Of growths on plants: resembling scurf; scurfy.
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3.
Of a person or thing: disgustingly mean; contemptible, despicable, low.
古体 比喻a scurvy knave a scurvy trick
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4.
Of the way someone is treated: poor, shabby.
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The adjective is derived from Late Middle English scurvi, scurvy, variants of scurfi (“having scurf, scabby”), from scurf (“skin disease causing scabs or scales; flakes of skin that fall off due to a skin disease, etc.”) + -i (suffix forming adjectives). Scurf is derived from Old English scurf, from Proto-Germanic *skurf- (“to gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off, sever; to divide, separate”). By surface analysis, scurf (“skin disease; flakes of skin that fall off due to a skin disease; crust-like formations on the skin”) + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives). The noun is derived from the adjective. It was used to translate the similar-sounding Dutch scheurbuik, French scorbut, Middle Low German schorbūk (“scurvy (disease)”), etc.
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