How to pronounce“scurvy”in English
adj"Well, what would happen if really obese people literally stopped eating and we medically supervised it and we gave them vitamin shots so they didn't get like
scurvy or whatever? Would they Would they burn through the fat stores in their body and get back to a healthy weight?"
So, with a shitload of medical supervision, they did it. And incredibly, at first, it worked. There was a woman who I call Susan, that's not
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Definitions of “scurvy”
Affected or covered with scurf (“skin disease causing flakes of skin to fall off”) or scabs; scurfy, scabby; also, of or relating to a skin disease causing scurf or to scurvy (noun sense 1).
“Some wenches come vnlased, / Some hyswyues come vnbrased, / Wyth theyr naked pappes, / That flappes and flappes; / […] / A sorte of foule drabbes / All scuruy with scabbes: […]”
Of growths on plants: resembling scurf; scurfy.
A disease caused by insufficient intake of vitamin C, leading to the formation of livid spots on the skin, spongy gums, loosening of the teeth, and bleeding into the skin and from almost all mucous membranes; (countable, obsolete) an occurrence of this disease.
“Our legs now vs deceiue, / ſwolne euery ioint withall, / With this diſeaſe, which, by your leaue, / the Scuruie men doe call.”
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