English

Pronunciation
IPA|/skæb/
audio|en-us-scab.ogg|Audio (US)
rhymes|æb

Etymology
OE. sceabb, Old Norse skabb, Latin scabies#Latin|scabies "scab, itch, mange." Cognate with OE. scafan, Latin scabere "to scratch"

Noun
en-noun

1. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
2. (colloquial or obsolete) The scabies.
3. 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.

1. Several different diseases of potato|potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by Streptomyces -bacteria.
2. Short form for common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab caused by Streptomyces scabies.
3. (founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
4. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
5. slang A worker who works for less than the rate fixed by the trade union.
6. slang A strikebreaker.
7. botany Any one of various more or less destructive fungus disease|diseases attacking cultivated plants, and forming dark-colored crustlike spots.

Synonyms
i-c|strikebreaker blackleg

Translations
trans-top|incrustation over a wound
Dutch: korst
Finnish: rupi
French: croûte
German: Kruste f
Hebrew: ��� (geled) m
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Icelandic: hrúður n
Italian: crosta f
Portuguese: crosta f
Russian: ����п (strup) m
Spanish: costra f, postilla f
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trans-top|scabies
See scabies
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trans-top| mange
See mange
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trans-top|group of diseases of potatoes
Finnish: rupi
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trans-top|common scab
Finnish: perunarupi
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trans-top|founding irregularity
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trans-top|mean, dirty, paltry fellow
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trans-top|worker who works for less than the rate fixed by the trade union
French: briseur de grève
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Italian: crumiro, crumira
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trans-top|strikebreaker
Finnish: rikkuri
German: Streikbrecher m
Italian: crumiro, crumira
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Russian: ���ейкб�е�е�|���ейкб�е��е� (štrejkbréxer) m
Spanish: esquirol m, rompehuelgas m|f italbrac|Latin America, carnero m italbrac|River Plate region
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trans-top| fungus disease of plants
Finnish: rupi
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trans-top|translations to be checked
ttbc|Spanish: sarna f
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Verb
en-verb|scabs|scabbing|scabbed|scabbed

1. (intransitive) To get covered by a scab.
2. (intransitive) To act as strikebreaker.
3. (transitive) (Australian slang) To beg (for), cadge, bum

#: I scabbed some money off a friend.

Translations
trans-top|to get covered by a scab
Finnish: arpeutua
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trans-top|to act as a strikebreaker
Finnish: rikkuroida
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trans-top|slang: to beg or bum
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Finnish: pummata
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fa:scab
io:scab
ru:scab
fi:scab
te:scab
vi:scab
zh:scab

• 2007-11-22 15:43 - Stephen G. Brown - /* Translations */

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