What does scab mean?
Definitions for scab
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Princeton's WordNet
scab, strikebreaker, blackleg, ratnoun
someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
scabverb
the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion
scabverb
form a scab
"the wounds will eventually scab"
fink, scab, rat, blacklegverb
take the place of work of someone on strike
GCIDE
Scabverb
to take the place of a striking worker.
Wiktionary
scabnoun
An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
scabnoun
(colloquial or obsolete) The scabies.
scabnoun
The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
scabnoun
Several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by Streptomyces -bacteria.
scabnoun
Short form for common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab caused by Streptomyces scabies.
scabnoun
Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases attacking cultivated plants, and forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
scabnoun
(founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
scabnoun
A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
scabnoun
A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker.
scabverb
To get covered by a scab.
scabverb
To act as strikebreaker.
scabverb
To beg (for), cadge, bum
I scabbed some money off a friend.
Etymology: sceabb, Old Norse skabb, Latin scabies Cognate with scafan, Latin scabere "to scratch"
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
SCABnoun
Etymology: scæb , Saxon; scabbia, Italian; schabbe, Dutch; scabies, Latin.
What’s the matter, you dissentious rogues,
That rubbing the poor itch of your opinion,
Make yourselves scabs? William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.That free from gouts thou may’st preserve thy care,
And clear from scabs, produc’d by freezing air. Dryden.I would thou did’st itch from head to foot, and I had the scratching of thee, I would make thee the loathsom’st scab in Greece. William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida.
Well said, wart, thou art a good scab: there is a tester for thee. William Shakespeare, Henry IV.
One of the usurers, a head man of the city, took it in dudgeon to be ranked, cheek by joul, with a scab of a currier. Roger L'Estrange.
This vap’ring scab must needs devise
To ape the thunder of the skies. Jonathan Swift.
ChatGPT
scab
A scab is a crusty or hard protective layer that forms over a wound during the healing process. It is part of the body's natural repair mechanism, formed by the clotting of blood and dried tissues to protect the wound from infection. Scab can also refer to a person who works despite an ongoing strike or is seen as betraying their coworkers by crossing a picket line during a strike.
Webster Dictionary
Scabnoun
an incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part
Scabnoun
the itch in man; also, the scurvy
Scabnoun
the mange, esp. when it appears on sheep
Scabnoun
a disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies)
Scabnoun
a slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold
Scabnoun
a mean, dirty, paltry fellow
Scabnoun
a nickname for a workman who engages for lower wages than are fixed by the trades unions; also, for one who takes the place of a workman on a strike
Scabverb
to become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over
Etymology: [OE. scab, scabbe, shabbe; cf. AS. scaeb, sceabb, scebb, Dan. & Sw. skab, and also L. scabies, fr. scabere to scratch, akin to E. shave. See Shave, and cf. Shab, Shabby.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Scab
skab, n. a crust formed over a sore: a disease of sheep resembling the mange: a disease of potatoes, or a fungous disease of apples, &c.: a mean fellow: a workman who refuses to join a trades-union or to take part in a strike, or who takes the place of a man out on strike.—v.i. to heal over, to cicatrise: to form a new surface by encrustation.—n. (print.) a scale-board.—adj. Scab′bed, affected or covered with scabs: diseased with the scab: vile, worthless.—ns. Scab′bedness; Scab′biness.—adj. Scab′by, scabbed: injured by the attachment of barnacles to the carapace of a shell: (print.) of matter that is blotched or uneven.—n. Scab′-mite, the itch-mite. [A.S scæb (Dan. scab, Ger. schabe)—L. scabies—scabĕre, to scratch.]
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The numerical value of scab in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
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The numerical value of scab in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of scab in a Sentence
The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
One of the things that bothered me is that I was the one that buried most of those people, most of the deceased, and it was like pulling the scab off of a wound.
This has been a scab on the side of the FBI for years.
It picks at what's been a very, very bad scab for Republicans for a long time, i think the party if they nominate him will be committing an abortion on itself.
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- roofAfrikaans
- جُلْبَةArabic
- crostaCatalan, Valencian
- strupovitost, strupCzech
- cramenWelsh
- skabDanish
- SchorfGerman
- κρούσταGreek
- skabioEsperanto
- postilla, costra, granoSpanish
- korp, kärnEstonian
- rupi, arpeutua, perunarupi, hulttio, hilse, pummata, rikkuroidaFinnish
- skrubb, skabbFaroese
- croûteFrench
- gearbIrish
- sgreabScottish Gaelic
- trallada, callada, callónGalician
- גלדHebrew
- varHungarian
- կեղանք, կեղArmenian
- hrúðurIcelandic
- spregevole, rogna, crosta, scabbia, gretto, sfoglia, meschinoItalian
- かさぶたJapanese
- მუნი, ქეციGeorgian
- ក្រមរKhmer
- 딱지Korean
- crustaLatin
- RoffLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- kreveleLatvian
- pāpaka, pakuMāori
- korstDutch
- łamistrajk, strupPolish
- crostaPortuguese
- парша, струп, мерзавец, коростаRussian
- krastaSerbo-Croatian
- skorpa, sårskorpaSwedish
- ฝ้าThai
- kabuk, kabuk bağlamakTurkish
- vảyVietnamese
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