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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
shabby/ˈʃabi/
▶adjective (shabbier, shabbiest)
  • 1 worn out or dilapidated.

    ■ dressed in old or worn clothes.

  • 2 mean and unfair.
– derivatives
shabbily adverb,
shabbiness noun.
– origin C17: from dial. shab ‘scab’ (from a Gmc base meaning ‘itch’) + -y1.



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