Wiktionary:Word of the day/2024/July 22

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Word of the day
for July 22
shabby adj
  1. Of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect.
  2. Of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing.
  3. (figurative)
    1. Of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean; also, not generous; stingy, tight-fisted.
    2. (often in the negative) Poor in quality; also, showing little effort or talent.
      1. (medicine, archaic) Of the pulse: thready, weak.
      2. (UK, dialectal or informal) Of weather: wet and dreary.
      3. (UK, dialectal, veterinary medicine) Chiefly of sheep: affected by shab or scab (“a skin disease”); scabby.
  4. (obsolete, rare) Dirty; muddy.

shabby v

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