SCRUB'BED, SCRUB'BY, adjective Small and mean; stunted in growth; as a scrubbed boy; a scrubby cur; a scrubby tree.
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Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
SCRUB'BED, SCRUB'BY, adjective Small and mean; stunted in growth; as a scrubbed boy; a scrubby cur; a scrubby tree.
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