scurvy

(figurative, no longer used) Of a person or thing: disgustingly mean; contemptible, despicable, low.

(figurative, no longer used) Of the way someone is treated: poor, shabby.

(no longer used) 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.

(no longer used) Of growths on plants: resembling scurf; scurfy.

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.

(offensive, figurative) A contemptible or despicable person.

(no longer used) A cattle disease, perhaps affecting the skin.