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Definition

a disease caused by vitamin C deficiency; symptoms include spots on the skin, spongy gums, and bleeding from all mucous membranes

The slang term, "limey" to describe someone who is British, arose because of the British navy's use of limes to prevent scurvy.

No fear of scurvy or ship fever this voyage.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
But yesternight, my lord, she and that friar, I saw them at the prison: a saucy friar, A very scurvy fellow.
William Shakespeare -- Measure for Measure
Tuberculosis, pellagra, kwashiorkor, gastro-enteritis, and scurvy bring death and destruction of health.
Nelson Mandela -- I Am Prepared to Die
Get thee glass eyes; And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.
William Shakespeare -- King Lear
There's a lot of scurvy about.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
The rest of you scurvy bunch o' lubbers'd do well to follow his lead.
Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
You know that was a kind of scurvy trick to play on a sister.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
] 'Youth, whatsoever thou art, thou art but a scurvy fellow.'
William Shakespeare -- Twelfth Night
I'd never hev stood for thet scurvy trick.
Zane Grey -- The Border Legion
Ods precious, this is scurvy, 'tis very scurvy: and you are— MOS: Nay, good, sir.
Ben Jonson -- Volpone
I shall no more to sea, to sea, Here shall I die a-shore:— This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man's funeral: Well, here's my comfort.
William Shakespeare -- The Tempest
And I think some words that Ginger has scattered among the Dwarfs are chiefly to blame for the scurvy return they made you.
C.S. Lewis -- The Last Battle
Well, thou hast a son shall take this disgrace off me; scurvy, old, filthy, scurvy lord!
William Shakespeare -- All's Well That Ends Well
I scorn you, scurvy companion.
William Shakespeare -- Henry IV, Part 2
It had played him a scurvy trick when it fashioned him into the thing he was, and it had played him scurvy tricks ever since.
Jack London -- Sea Wolf
When I was a kid in high school I cut out vitamin C, I got scurvy.
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
It was amazing we'd even made it past grade school without getting scurvy.
Sarah Dessen -- This Lullaby
Come back, you scurvy dog!
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Scurvy trick that 'd been," muttered Bland.
Zane Grey -- The Lone Star Ranger

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