Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Scabby; mangy.
- Mean; shabby.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Shabby.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
shabby
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Examples
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Breach of promise cases were brought against women by disappointed men who had been "shabbed" (as jilting was called in some parts of New England), as well as by deserted women against men.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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Ballygrass Threshers, when you shabbed sickness and wouldn't go. '
Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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