scabby

Adjective

scabby (comparative scabbier, superlative scabbiest)

1. Affected with scabs; full of scabs.
   • Her wrizled skin, as rough as maple rind,
     So scabby was, that would have loath'd all womankind.1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   reef

2. Diseased with the scab (mange): mangy.
3. Having a blotched, uneven appearance.
4. Injured by the attachment of barnacles to the carapace of a shell.
5. Working against union policies, working to bust unions; in particular, being a scab (worker who crosses a union picket line).
   • The police, the governor, and the "scabby" Hearst Examiner "received a tremendous razzing," according to the Waterfront Worker, while all along the line of march "the workers on the sidelines cheered[…]"1990, Bruce Nelson, Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 166
   • [They're a] scabby right-to-work company and they don't care how much the sharp edges on that dust screw up a guy's lungs.2016 August 31, David M. Caulfield, Ever a Fighter: The Adventures of Katherine Wilkinson, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
6. (Ireland, UK, slang) stingy; scrounging.
   • The chipper was a bit scabby on the vinegar today.
   • I lent you a fiver last week and you still haven’t paid me back, you scabby bastard!