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Englishman, derives from the lime juice given to English sailors long ago to prevent scurvy.
– Phrase to wake up a sailor. “Show a leg!, it be dawn, you scurvy lubber!â€.
Vile; mean; low; vulgar; contemptible. Ye Scurvy Dogs!
– Well, of course, it’s an awful affliction that used to bedevil buccaneers in days gone by; that’s one reason there was lime juice added to the rum in the water, making grog. So calling someone a “scurvy bilge rat†is even worse than calling him a “bilge rat.â€
Noun. An English person. Derived from the habit, on long journeys, of supplying lime juice to English sailors as a preventative against scurvy. [Orig. Aust. 1880s]
Englishman, derives from the lime juice given to English sailors long ago to prevent scurvy.
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A remedy for scurvy.
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A disease characterized by livid spots, especially about the thighs and legs, due to extravasation of blood, and by spongy gums, and bleeding from almost all the mucous membranes. It is accompanied by paleness, languor, depression, and general debility. It is occasioned by confinement, innutritious food, and hard labor, but especially by lack of fresh vegetable food, or confinement for a long time to a limited range of food, which is incapable of repairing the waste of the system. It was formerly prevalent among sailors and soldiers.
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Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy.
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Scurvy.
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Counteracting scurvy.
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A plant of the genus Nasturtium (N. Armoracia), allied to scurvy grass, having a root of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine.
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Vile; mean; low; vulgar; contemptible.
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Scurvy grass.
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Scurvy.
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A bastard; colloquially, a low, scurvy fellow; -- used generally in contempt, or in coarse humor. Also used adjectively.
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Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers.
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In a scurvy manner.
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Of or pertaining to scurvy; of the nature of, or resembling, scurvy; diseased with scurvy; as, a scorbutic person; scorbutic complaints or symptoms.
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The itch in man; also, the scurvy.
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The quality or state of being scurvy; vileness; meanness.
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