| 单词 | shabby |
|---|---|
| 音标 | ['ʃæbi] |
| 解释 | adj. 破烂的；卑鄙的 |
| 红宝书 | 【英】 adj.破烂的(dilapida ted)；卑鄙的(despicable, contemptible) 【例】 a shabby armchair(破旧的扶手 椅) |
| 字源 | shabby (adj.) 1660s, of persons, "poorly dressed," with -y (2) + shab "a low fellow" (1630s), literally "scab" (now only dialectal in the literal sense, in reference to a disease of sheep), from Old English sceabb (the native form of the Scandinavian word that yielded Modern English scab; also see sh-). Similar formation in Middle Dutch schabbich, German schäbig "shabby." Of clothes, furniture, etc., "of mean appearance, no longer new or fresh" from 1680s; meaning "inferior in quality" is from 1805. Figurative sense "contemptibly mean" is from 1670s. Related: Shabbily; shabbiness. Shabby-genteel "run-down but trying to keep up appearances, retaining in present shabbiness traces of former gentility," first recorded 1754. Related: Shabaroon "disreputable person," c.1700. |
| 不择手段背单词 | adj. 衣衫破烂的; 下贱卑鄙的 【记】读: 傻bby－衣衫破烂的; 下贱卑鄙的 |
| 趣味全助记 | 【记】sh傻 + b卑 + by鄙， 人又傻又卑鄙 |
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