【天天新视野】shabby是什么意思？shabby的用法

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一、shabby是什么意思

1、shabby 破烂的，破旧的

2、等同于 scab,疥癣，疮疤，-y,形容词后缀。引申词义脏的，破败的，破旧的。

二、shabby的用法

1、shabby

2、shabby: [17] Etymologically, shabby means ‘scabby’. It comes from a now obsolete shab, which denoted ‘scab’, and also metaphorically ‘disreputable fellow’. It was the native equivalent to Old Norse *skabbr ‘scab’, from which English gets scab.=> scab

3、shabby (adj.)

4、1660s, of persons,"poorly dressed,"with -y (2) + shab"a low fellow"(1630s), literally"scab"(now only dialectal in the literal sense, in reference to a disease of sheep), from Old English sceabb (the native form of the Scandinavian word that yielded Modern English scab; also see sh-). Similar formation in Middle Dutch schabbich, German schäbig"shabby." Of clothes, furniture, etc.,"of mean appearance, no longer new or fresh"from 1680s; meaning"inferior in quality"is from 1805. Figurative sense"contemptibly mean"is from 1670s. Related: Shabbily; shabbiness. Shabby-genteel"run-down but trying to keep up appearances, retaining in present shabbiness traces of former gentility,"first recorded 1754. Related: Shabaroon"disreputable person,"c. 1700.

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