Meaning

• A disease caused by insufficient intake of vitamin C leading to the formation of livid spots on the skin, spongy gums, loosening of the teeth and bleeding into the skin and from almost all mucous membranes.

Meaning

• Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy.

• Contemptible, despicable, low, disgustingly mean.

  "a scurvy trick; a scurvy knave"