Definitions for scab
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. scab, strikebreaker, blackleg, ratnoun

   someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike

2. scabverb

   the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion

3. scabverb

   form a scab

   "the wounds will eventually scab"

4. fink, scab, rat, blacklegverb

   take the place of work of someone on strike

GCIDERate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Scabverb

   to take the place of a striking worker.

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. scabnoun

   An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.

2. scabnoun

   (colloquial or obsolete) The scabies.

3. scabnoun

   The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.

4. scabnoun

   Several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by Streptomyces -bacteria.

5. scabnoun

   Short form for common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab caused by Streptomyces scabies.

6. scabnoun

   Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases attacking cultivated plants, and forming dark-colored crustlike spots.

7. scabnoun

   (founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.

8. scabnoun

   A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.

9. scabnoun

   A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker.

10. scabverb

    To get covered by a scab.

11. scabverb

    To act as strikebreaker.

12. scabverb

    To beg (for), cadge, bum

    I scabbed some money off a friend.

13. Etymology: sceabb, Old Norse skabb, Latin scabies Cognate with scafan, Latin scabere "to scratch"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SCABnoun

   Etymology: scæb , Saxon; scabbia, Italian; schabbe, Dutch; scabies, Latin.

   1. An incrustation formed over a sore by dried matter.

   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.

   2. The itch or mange of horses.3. A paltry fellow, so named from the itch often incident to negligent poverty.

   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.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Scabnoun

   an incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part

2. Scabnoun

   the itch in man; also, the scurvy

3. Scabnoun

   the mange, esp. when it appears on sheep

4. Scabnoun

   a disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies)

5. Scabnoun

   a slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold

6. Scabnoun

   a mean, dirty, paltry fellow

7. 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

8. Scabverb

   to become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over

9. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. 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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1. SCAB

   What does SCAB stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the SCAB acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

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Anagrams for scab »

1. ABCS

2. ABCs

3. BACS

4. bacs

5. cabs

6. SABC

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of scab in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of scab in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of scab in a Sentence

1. Tom Colbert:

   This has been a scab on the side of the FBI for years.

2. Jack London:

   The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

3. Haywood Johnson:

   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.

4. Doug Heye:

   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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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=scab
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=scab
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Scab
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=scab
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scab
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=scab