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Shabbier
Shabby Shab"by, a. [Compar. Shabbier; superl. Shabbiest.] [See Shab, n., Scabby, and Scab.] 1. Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged. Wearing shabby coats and dirty shirts. --Macaulay. 2. Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments. ``The dean was so shabby.' --Swift. 3. Mean; paltry; despicable; as, shabby treatment. ``Very shabby fellows.' --Clarendon.
Shabbiest
Shabby Shab"by, a. [Compar. Shabbier; superl. Shabbiest.] [See Shab, n., Scabby, and Scab.] 1. Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged. Wearing shabby coats and dirty shirts. --Macaulay. 2. Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments. ``The dean was so shabby.' --Swift. 3. Mean; paltry; despicable; as, shabby treatment. ``Very shabby fellows.' --Clarendon.

Meaning of Habbie from wikipedia

- Habbie may refer to: The Habbie stanza or standard Habbie, also known as the Burns stanza Habbie Simpson, Scottish piper from Kilbarchan whom the stanza...
- Habbie Simpson (1550–1620) was the town piper in the Scottish village of Kilbarchan in Renfrewshire. Today Simpson is chiefly known as the subject of the...
- Burns, and prior to his use of it was known as the standard Habbie, after the piper Habbie Simpson (1550–1620). It is also sometimes known as the Scottish...
- 1786 Scots language poem by Robert Burns in his favourite meter, standard Habbie. The poem's theme is contained in the final verse: In the eight-stanza satirical...
- Briggs, nephew to Habbie Simpson, written in the same stanza. He wrote a continuation of his father's Packman's Pater Noster. Habbie stanza Chisholm 1911...
- ****ociation. A main event of the day is a "coming to life" of the statue of Habbie Simpson (a famous village piper) on the steeple. The statue is covered by...
- as well as leading the trend for pastoral poetry, helping to develop the Habbie stanza as a poetic form. James Macpherson (1736–1796) was the first Scottish...
- to 1840,[clarification needed] although the first printed poetry (in the Habbie stanza form) by an Ulster Scots writer was published in a broadsheet in...
- Well-known musicians included the fiddler Pattie Birnie and the piper Habbie Simpson. This tradition continued into the nineteenth century, with major...
- as well as leading the trend for pastoral poetry, helping to develop the Habbie stanza as a poetic form. The lawyer Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696–1782) made...