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scabby

[skab-ee] / ˈskæb i /




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Some days were clean, and then some days he was scabby and flaking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025

"My daughter has a rash across her leg, which is scabby and itchy, and my eldest has anxiety and worries constantly about the mould."

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2024

Scratching your bow and scratching your scabby elbows!

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2019

Brad Greer, 49, developed two scabby infections on each of his legs where rain boots had irritated his skin.

From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2017

She pours me orange juice, which I can’t drink because it burns my scabby lips.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

Thus, they would call their dogs and their asses by his name, and the dogs would be the scabbiest in the streets, and the asses the laziest in the market.

From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Sir Hall Caine




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