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Scathy

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Mischievous; vicious; dangerous. UK, archaic, dialectal

Etymology

From Middle English scathi, from Old English *scaþiġ, sċeaþiġ (“injurious”), equivalent to scathe + -y.

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