shabby
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Is shabby a Scrabble word?
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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