shabbed, a. Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 1 sceabbede, scæbbede, 4–5 schabbed, shabbid, -yd, 7– shabbed.
[f. shab n. + -ed2. Cf. scabbed.]
1. Afflicted with scab or scabs; = scabbed a. 1.
| a 1100 in Napier O.E. Glosses 126/4929 Purulentus, scæbbede [v.r. sceabbede], ættræn. 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. viii. 17 Hou heore schabbede schep schal heore wolle saue. a 1400–50 Stockh. Med. MS. 101 For schabbed hands. |
2. = shabby.
| 1674 R. Godfrey Inj. & Abus. Physick 63 The Chymical Doctor..offered him his help contrary to his custome, (for I believe he hateth that shabbed trick of asking people to buy health). a 1687 Cotton Poems (1689) 94 We..Had happy been had we chang'd features, Garments at least, though theirs be shabbed, With those who that cold place inhabit. 1716 Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) V. 210 He died in a shabbed Condition, as he lived. 1891 ‘M. Gray’ In Heart of Storm Prol. i. I. 28 My best bonnet was that shabbed I didn't like to go to church of a fine Sunday. |