shabbed
English
Pronunciation
- (adjective) IPA(key): /ˈʃæbɪd/
- (verb) IPA(key): /ʃæbd/
- Rhymes: -æbɪd, -æbd
Adjective
shabbed (comparative more shabbed, superlative most shabbed)
- (obsolete) shabby
- 1691, [Anthony Wood], Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Tho[mas] Bennet […]:
- he being also a meer Scholar, and therefore in a poor and shabbed condition […]
- 1882, William White, Notes and queries: Volume 65:
- This person, who lived very poor, and in a shabbed condition in his confinement, and would be glad to take a pot of ale from any one that would give it to him […]
References
“shabbed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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