scurvy

scurvy

Low, mean, contemptible, or despicable. You're nothing but a scurvy dog, you know that? That scurvy bastard stole nearly $2 million from his clients through the years.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

scurvy

(ˈskɚvi)
mod. repulsive; gross. (Collegiate.) That class is scurvy. You’ll wish you hadn’t taken it.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • shitass
  • shitasses
  • bastardly gullion
  • limejuicer
  • limey
  • salt horse
  • shitstick
  • stinkpot
References in periodicals archive
For the next several decades, scurvy once again sickened and killed.
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On January 26, 2018, serum specimens were collected from three of the patients with suspected scurvy, and test results indicated vitamin C levels of 2.89 mg/L, 3.06 mg/L, and 2.71 mg/L (normal = 2-14 mg/L); deficiency is defined as a vitamin C level <2mg/L (1).
Scurvy Outbreak Among South Sudanese Adolescents and Young Men--Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, 2017-2018
Scurvy was first documented in the Ebers papyrus in 1550 BC (1) and became famous as a sailor disease after the death of at least two million sailors between the 16th and 18th centuries (2).
Scurvy: A rare cause of arthritis in a child with neurologic disorder
Drawing on historical accounts from scientists and voyagers as well as major literary works, Lamb traces the cultural impact of scurvy during the 18th-century age of geographical and scientific discovery.
What We Are Reading Today: Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery by Jonathan Lamb
Signs and symptoms of scurvy (also known as vitamin C deficiency) include easy bruising and breaking of skin; blisters that would develop into ulcers; bleeding black gums; and brittle bones due to the breakdown of collagen, which is dependent on vitamin C for its production.
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Cranberries: Prevent scurvy; prevent cure or urinary-tract infections
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Last night shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth, said: "It's absolutely shameful that malnutrition and scurvy admissions to hospital have risen so dramatically after eight years of Tory rule.
HUNGER SHAMES; Number of people in hospital with malnutrition has tripled; EXCLUSIVE
Culpeper writes 'Brooklime is often used in diet-drinks with other things to purge the blood and body from all ill humours that would destroy the health, and is helpful to the scurvy. It do provoke the urine and break the stone and pass it away'.
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Scurvy, known since the Egyptian era, is rarely seen in the modern world due to the discovery of its link to the dietary deficiency of vitamin C.
Scurvy in 2017 in the USA
Linus Pauling, PhD, championed a nutritional treatment for CVD/chronic scurvy called Pauling Therapy.
Stop fixing the adaptive response: why cardiovascular disease should be named chronic scurvy
Key words: Arctic; Northwest Passage; Sir John Franklin; oral; dental; scurvy; lead poisoning; tuberculosis; Addison's disease
A critical assessment of the oral condition of the crew of the Franklin expedition
We diagnosed this patient with vitamin C deficiency (scurvy) based on the fact that she had perifollicular hemorrhages with corkscrew hairs, which is a pathognomonic feature of the deficiency.
Perifollicular petechiae and easy bruising
She was previously quoted as saying she eats only "nuts and crisps", but Joanna Lumley assures 3am she won't be getting scurvy any time soon.
Why Lumley's so Fab
1 LEMO NS are high in vitamin C - sailors consumed them on long voyages to prevent scurvy.
7 things you should know about lemons
1 LEMONS are high in vitamin C - sailors consumed them on long voyages to prevent scurvy.
7 things you should know about lemons