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scurviness

noun

Etymology

From scurvy + -ness.

  1. inherited from *(s)ker-✻ — “to cut off, sever; to divide, separate”
  2. inherited from *skurf-✻ — “to gnaw”
  3. inherited from scurf
  4. inherited from scurvi
  5. suffixed as scurviness — “scurvy + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality or state of being scurvy

    The quality or state of being scurvy; vileness; meanness.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for scurviness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA