All 3 Uses of
scurvy
in
Don Quixote
- "You are a stupid, scurvy innkeeper," said Don Quixote, and putting spurs to Rocinante and bringing his pike to the slope he rode out of the inn before anyone could stop him, and pushed on some distance without looking to see if his squire was following him.†
Chpt 1.17-18 *
- "Do you think," he said to him after a pause, "you scurvy clown, that you are to be always interfering with me, and that you are to be always offending and I always pardoning?†
Chpt 1.29-30
- It's another sort of cat they must throw in my face, and not that poor scurvy knave.†
Chpt 2.45-46
Definition:
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(scurvy) a disease caused by vitamin C deficiency; symptoms include spots on the skin, spongy gums, and bleeding from all mucous membranes