scabby
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Some days were clean, and then some days he was scabby and flaking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025
"It was a busy weekend and there were a lot of people ready for a day out. There was me, absolutely stinking, wheeling this box and eating bits of scabby old sandwich."
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2023
He describes reef rashes, sun-caused cataracts, scabby ears, a broken nose, cuts from sea-urchin spines and mottled arms that may presage skin cancer.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2015
Beyond stored scabby remnants, smallpox may still exist in suspended animation within buried corpses or mummified human remains.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2014
I shrugged, and small pains shot through my scabby shoulders.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
Thus, they would call their dogs and their asses by his name, and the dogs would be the scabbiest in the streets, and the asses the laziest in the market.
From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Sir Hall Caine
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