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shabby

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Is shabby a Scrabble word?

Yes, shabby is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 16 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of shabby?

Definition

adj (English)

1. (figurative)Examples: "shabby treatment"; "It was voted a shabby excuse."; "I, being more of a native, and familiar with their customs, knew that this shabby present was an insult to us."Synonyms: ungenerous, as tight as Dick's hatband, cheap, cheeseparing, chintzy, close, close as wax, close-fistedfiguratively

2. (figurative)Examples: "His painting is not too shabby."; "[M]y Lord Duke's entertainments were both ſeldom and ſhabby […]"; "So unlooked-for a paradox required to be defended by the strongest arguments: who, then, would expect such shabby, not arguments, but hints of arguments, as the author presents us with?"figuratively

3. (figurative)archaicfiguratively

4. (figurative)UKdialectalfigurativelyinformal

5. (figurative)UKdialectalfiguratively

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To make (something) shabby (adjective sense 1); to shabbify.transitive

2. (intransitive) To become shabby; to shabbify.Examples: "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."intransitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "shabby"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "shabby"?

Scrabble
16 points
S1
H4
A1
B3
B3
Y4
Words With Friends
16 points
S1
H3
A1
B4
B4
Y4

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