scrubby

English

Etymology

scrub +‎ -y

Adjective

scrubby (comparative scrubbier, superlative scrubbiest)

Covered with or consisting of scrub.
Inferior in size or quality.
- 1883, Hargrave Jennings, The Childishness and Brutality of the Time:
  This sort of literary slop-work will not suffice for your walking in the roads of life to any good purpose. It is bad work. It is scrubby work.

Translations

covered with scrub

Bulgarian: обрасъл с храсти (obrasǎl s hrasti)
Finnish: pensaikkoinen, pusikkoinen
Swedish: snårig (sv), risig (sv)

inferior in size or quality

Bulgarian: недорасъл (bg) (nedorasǎl)
Finnish: kitukasvuinen (fi), pienikokoinen (fi) (inferior in size); huono (fi), surkea (fi), kurja (fi) (inferior in quality)

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