Scabby babby

n.

Heard in Tipperary

An expression of extreme hunger, even to the point of eating something unpalatable.

Jasus mary I'm so hungry I'd ate a scabby babby...

Posh English

Good gracious me, I am so famished I could consume an infant covered in scabs.

Related terms

• I'd ate a scabby babby off a tennis racketExtremely hungry.
• Ate a scabby babyExtremely hungry, to the point of being willing to eat almost anything.
• Ne'er a babby in the house washed!A day on which one has accomplished almost nothing.
• Id suck a scabby baby through a tennis racketExtremely hungry.
• ScabbyMean. Unwilling to contribute according to economic means.
• Scabby donkeyExtremely hungry.