Shabby vs Shaky - What's the difference?
shabby | shaky |
As adjectives the difference between shabby and shaky is that shabby is torn or worn; poor; mean; ragged while shaky is shaking]] or [[tremble|trembling.
shabby English
Adjective
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Torn or worn; poor; mean; ragged.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
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, passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}
- They lived in a tiny apartment, with some old, shabby furniture.
Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments.
- The fellow arrived looking rather shabby after journeying so far.
Mean; paltry; despicable.
- shabby treatment
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shaky English
Adjective
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Shaking]] or [[tremble, trembling.
- a shaky spot in a marsh
- a shaky hand
Nervous]]; [[anxious, Anxious.
- He’s a nice guy but when he talks to me, he acts shaky .
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=April 10
, author=Alistair Magowan
, title=Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle
, work=BBC Sport
citation
, page=
, passage=Villa had plenty of opportunities to make the game safe after a shaky start and despite not reaching any great heights, they were resolute enough to take control of the game in the second half. }}
(of wood) Full of shakes or cracks; cracked.
- shaky timber
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Easily shaken; tottering; unsound.
- a shaky constitution
- shaky business credit
Synonyms
* (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over) precarious, rickety, unsteady, tottering, unsafe, unstable, wobbly
Derived terms
* shakiness
* shakycam
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