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noun
- An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
- (colloquial or obsolete) The scabies.
- The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
- 1882: Scab was the terror of the sheep farmer, and the peril of his calling. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 306.
- Several different diseases of potato, potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by Streptomyces -bacteria.
- Short form for common scab, a relatively harmless variety of caused by Streptomyces scabies.
- (founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
- A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
- (slang) A worker who works for less than the rate fixed by the trade union.
- (slang) A strikebreaker.
- (botany) Any one of various more or less destructive fungus disease, diseases attacking cultivated plants, and forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
verb (scabs, scabbing, scabbed, scabbed)
- (intransitive) To get covered by a scab.
- (intransitive) To act as strikebreaker.
- (transitive) (Australian slang) To beg (for), cadge, bum
- I scabbed some money off a friend.
Etymology: sceabb, Old Norse skabb, Latin scabiesLatin, scabies "scab, itch, mange." Cognate with scafan, Latin scabere "to scratch"
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