- sca´brous|ness
- sca|brous «SKAY bruhs», adjective.3. hard to treat with decency; indelicate; risqué: »
The inhabitants mix, mate, and mismate in a series of scabrous sexual exercises (Time).
╂[< Late Latin scabrōsus < Latin scaber scaly, related to scabere to scratch, scrape]–sca´brous|ly, adverb.–sca´brous|ness, noun.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.