Sekirov Dictionary

shabby

/ˈʃæbi/

adjective 7
verb 2
forms 5

adjective7

•
Of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect; scruffy.
- They lived in a tiny apartment, with some old, shabby furniture.
•
Of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing.
- The fellow arrived looking rather shabby after journeying so far.
•
(figurative) Of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean; also, not generous; stingy, tight-fisted.
- It was voted a shabby excuse. — 1856
•
(figurative) Poor in quality; also, showing little effort or talent.
- His painting is not too shabby.
(informal, figurative) Of weather: wet and dreary.
(dialect, UK) Chiefly of sheep: affected by shab or scab (“a skin disease”); scabby.
(figurative, no longer used) Of the pulse: thready, weak.

verb2

To make (something) shabby; to shabbify.
•
To become shabby; to shabbify.
- You'll be one of those tough, square, solid middle-aged men, like a shabbying brown bear, your golden crew-cut greying judiciously at the temples. — 1962

forms

shabbied · shabbying · shabbies · shabbier · shabbiest

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