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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
scurvy is a noun and adjective meaning "a condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C)
of the most contemptible kind
“abject cowardice”
“a low stunt to pull”
“a low-down sneak”
“his miserable treatment of his family”
“You miserable skunk!”
“a scummy rabble”
“a scurvy trick”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for scurvy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.