shabby adj.

1660s, of persons, "poorly dressed;" 1680s of clothes, furniture, etc., "of mean appearance, no longer new or fresh;" with -y (2) + shab "a low fellow" (1630s), extended from the original sense, "scabies." This is from Middle English shabbe "skin disease characterized by eruptions, itching, etc.," from Old English sceabb, the native form of Modern English scab (n.), which was influenced by Scandinavian (see sh-).

Shab (n.) survives in reference to a disease of sheep, but in Middle English shabbed meant "suffering from scabies, mange, etc." (from Old English sceabbed).

Shabby in the sense of "inferior in quality" is from 1805. The figurative meaning "contemptibly mean" is from 1670s. Similar formation in Middle Dutch schabbich, German schäbig "shabby." Related: Shabbily; shabbiness. Carlyle has shabbish "somewhat shabby."

Shabby-genteel "run-down but trying to keep up appearances, retaining in present shabbiness traces of former gentility," is attested by 1754. Shabaroon, shabberoon "disreputable person" is attested from c. 1700.

词汇	shabby
词源	shabby adj. 1660s, of persons, "poorly dressed;" 1680s of clothes, furniture, etc., "of mean appearance, no longer new or fresh;" with -y (2) + shab "a low fellow" (1630s), extended from the original sense, "scabies." This is from Middle English shabbe "skin disease characterized by eruptions, itching, etc.," from Old English sceabb, the native form of Modern English scab (n.), which was influenced by Scandinavian (see sh-). Shab (n.) survives in reference to a disease of sheep, but in Middle English shabbed meant "suffering from scabies, mange, etc." (from Old English sceabbed). Shabby in the sense of "inferior in quality" is from 1805. The figurative meaning "contemptibly mean" is from 1670s. Similar formation in Middle Dutch schabbich, German schäbig "shabby." Related: Shabbily; shabbiness. Carlyle has shabbish "somewhat shabby." Shabby-genteel "run-down but trying to keep up appearances, retaining in present shabbiness traces of former gentility," is attested by 1754. Shabaroon, shabberoon "disreputable person" is attested from c. 1700. Entries linking to shabby -y 2 adjective suffix, "full of or characterized by," from Old English -ig, from Proto-Germanic -iga- (source also of Dutch, Danish, German -ig, Gothic -egs), from PIE -(i)ko-, adjectival suffix, cognate with elements in Greek -ikos, Latin -icus (see -ic). Originally added to nouns in Old English; used from 13c. with verbs, and by 15c. even with other adjectives (for example crispy). Adjectives such as hugy, vasty* are artificial words that exist for the sake of poetical metrics. scab n. mid-13c., in a general sense, "skin disease, 'the itch,' " developed from Old English sceabb (related to scafan "to shave, scrape, scratch") and from its cognate, Old Norse skabb, both from Proto-Germanic skab- "scratch, shave" (from PIE (s)kep- "to cut, scrape, hack;" see scabies). Likely reinforced by resemblance of the plural to Latin cognate scabies "scab, itch, mange" (from scabere "to scratch"). The word was extended late 14c. to the patches or ulcerations accompanying the disease, hence the main modern meaning "crust which forms over a wound or sore," attested by c. 1400. The colloquial meaning "strikebreaker" is recorded by 1806, from earlier colloquial sense of "person who refuses to join a trade union" (1777), probably from meaning "despicable person; mean, paltry fellow" (1580s), which, according to OED, is possibly from Dutch, where a similar sense had developed. The flood-scoured scablands of the Pacific Northwest were so called by 1923. -y (2)scab (n.)sh-shabbify (v.) updated on July 21, 2022
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