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Definition of Scrubbiest
1. scrubby [adj] - See also: scrubby
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrubbiest
Literary usage of Scrubbiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"T. The scrubbiest cur in all the pack Can set the mastiff on your back. 1 own
his madness is a jest, If that were all. But he 's possest, Incarnate with a ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"The "grand devoted fellows" are in some dark green and red uniform, and are the
scrubbiest lot (that is a lot wanting a great deal of scrubbing) 1 ever saw. ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"The scrubbiest cur in all the pack Can set the mastiff on your back. 5 &••/'/.
SCRUFF, ns The same, I suppose, with scurf, by a metathesis usual in ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1868)
"When away, and in full cry, the emulation is described as something wonderful, —
the scrubbiest little " varmint " evidently thinking that ..."
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