scurvy

scurvy
noun
  1. [mass noun]a disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin C, characterized by swollen bleeding gums and the opening of previously healed wounds, which particularly affected poorly nourished sailors until the end of the 18th century
    坏血病
(scurvier, scurviest)
  1. [attrib.](archaic)worthless or contemptible
    (古)不中用的，卑鄙的
    that was a scurvy trick.
    那是卑鄙的伎俩。
派生
scurvily
adverb
语源
  1. late Middle English (as an adjective meaning 'scurfy'): from scurf + -y. The noun use (mid 16th cent.) is by association with French scorbut (see scorbutic)
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