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- noun Plural form of
scurvy .
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Examples
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Anyone that violates the rules is to be shot immediately and the winner is of course the team that scurvies.
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“As my Auntie May Reeding Well used to say, ‘When life scurvies you, lemonize it.’”
The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004
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“As my Auntie May Reeding Well used to say, ‘When life scurvies you, lemonize it.’”
The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004
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“As my Auntie May Reeding Well used to say, ‘When life scurvies you, lemonize it.’”
The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004
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It must, however, be admitted that mineral waters are very beneficial in cachexies, scurvies, jaundice, hypochondriacal and hysterical affections.
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It came from an old physician at Richmond, who did amazing service with it in inveterate scurvies, -- the parents, or ancestors, at least, I believe, of all gouts.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
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Simeon Pauli (a learned Dane) thinks sugar to be one cause of our English consumption, and Dr. Willis blames it as one of our universal scurvies: therefore, when chocolate produces any ill effects, they may be often imputed to the great superfluity of its sugar. "
The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa Brandon Head
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