scrubby
pronunciation
How to pronounce scrubby in British English:
UK [ˈskrʌbi]
How to pronounce scrubby in American English:
US [ˈskrʌbi]
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- Adjective:
- sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush
- inferior in size or quality
Word Origin
- scrubby (adj.)
- "stunted, inferior, shabby," 1590s; see scrub (n.) + -y (2). Meaning "covered with scrub" is from 1670s. Related: Scrubbiness.
Example
- 1. Scrubby is the best dog I have ever owned in my life .
- 2. Scrubby may have a week left , or a month or maybe a few months .
- 3. At the beginning of the 20th century a mere 30 homesteaders tilled the scrubby soil .
- 4. Astonishing extravagant and the most scrubby school contrast .
- 5. Small reddish-brown wallabies of scrubby areas of australia and new guinea .