Definitions for scurvy

scurvy scur·vy

Spelling: [skur-vee]
IPA: /ˈskɜr vi/

Scurvy is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in scurvy (crsuvy).

Definitions for scurvy

noun

  1. Pathology. a disease marked by swollen and bleeding gums, livid spots on the skin, prostration, etc., due to a diet lacking in vitamin C.

adjective

  1. contemptible; despicable; mean:

Origin of scurvy

First recorded in 1555-65; scurf + -y1

Examples for scurvy

But what are you to do when the boys clear out, and—and play you such a scurvy trick?

I asked shocked, “who would think of such a scurvy trick, sir?”

In the 18th century, German immigrants coming to Pennsylvania boarded ships plagued with typhus, dysentery, smallpox, and scurvy.

Handel thought the orchestra was just playing him a scurvy trick.

Salt meat is not so easily digested as fresh provisions, and has a tendency to produce putrid diseases, especially the scurvy.

Half the crew of seventy-seven perish of starvation and scurvy.

The Resolution had only three men on the sick-list, and but one of these had the scurvy.

She had been under my care three years before for sailor's scurvy.

That's a scurvy welcome to give a nephew you haven't seen for eighteen years.

Isn't there danger of scurvy if we have nothing but salt pork to eat?

Word Value for scurvy
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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