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** English
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*** Etymology
From [en], [enm] (also as [enm], [enm] > [en]), from [en] and [en], both from
[en], from [en]. [en]. Cognate with [de], [da], [sv], [la]. Related also to
[ang], [la], [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[~]
1. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
2. [en] The scabies .
3. The mange , especially when it appears on sheep .
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1882 | author=James Edwin Thorold Rogers | title=A History of Agriculture and Prices in England | volume=4 | page=306
|passage= SCAB was the terror of the sheep farmer, and the peril of his
calling.}}
1. [en] Any of several different disease s of potato es producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).
2. Common scab , a relatively harmless variety of SCAB (potato disease) caused by [Streptomyces scabies] .
3. [en] Any one of various more or less destructive fungal disease s that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
4. [en] A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold .
5. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
6. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=c. 1601–1602 |author=w:William Shakespeare |title=w:Twelfth Night
|section=act 2, scene 5 |passage=Out, SCAB! }}
1. * {{ RQ:Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida | 5 | 1 | passage=I would make thee the / loathsomest SCAB in Greece.
}}
1. [en] [en] A worker who acts against trade union policies; any picket crosser ( strikebreaker ), and especially one with devotion to [union busting] .
2. * C. 1910S , [Jack London] (attributed), _The SCAB_ :
3. *: When a SCAB comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out.
**** Derived terms
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**** Related terms
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**** Translations
[incrustation over a wound]
- Abkhaz: [ab]
- Adyghe: [ady]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Aleut: [ale]
- Amharic: [am]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Breton: [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chinese:
- Crimean Tatar: [crh]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Faroese: [fo] , [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] ; [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Ingrian: [izh] , [izh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Latgalian: [ltg]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Mirandese: [mwl]
- Northern Sami: [se]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old English: [ang]
- Persian: [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Punjabi: [pa] , [pa]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Somali: [so]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Venetan: [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[scabies]
[mange]
[group of diseases of potatoes]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[common scab]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
[trans-bottom]
[fungus disease of plants]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[founding irregularity]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Italian: [it]
[trans-bottom]
[mean, dirty, paltry fellow]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[strikebreaker]
[checktrans-top]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To become covered by a scab or scabs.
2. [en] To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
3. * 1734 , Royal Society of London, _The Philosophical Transactions (1719 - 1733) Abridged_ , Volume 7, |scabbing+off | from%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=rfp867GOSb&sig=PIQ7DioGdAzIkZqDxVX1yugqphE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=veYwUKuvGOeWiQfvx4HQBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22scabbed | scabbing%20off | from%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 631 (see http://books.google.com.au/books?id=4VAVAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA531&lpg=RA1-PA531&dq=%22scabbed) ,
4. *: Thoſe Puſtules aroſe, maturated, and SCABBED off, intirely like the true Pox.
5. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2009 | author=Linda Wisdom | title=Wicked By Any Other Name | pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=t3LaNotymNcC&pg=PA233&lpg=PA233&dq=%22scabbed%7Cscabbing+off%7Cfrom%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=363tQEyJiY&sig=xsQzufUSn-dejMLE2GtTaKbDT8E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=veYwUKuvGOeWiQfvx4HQBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22scabbed%7Cscabbing%20off%7Cfrom%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false | page=233
|passage=Trev walked over and leaned down, dropping a tender kiss on her
forehead where the skin was raw and SCABBING from the cut.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2009 | author=Nancy Lord | title=Rock, Water, Wild: An Alaskan Life | pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=8XNzra78RK0C&pg=PA121&lpg=PA121&dq=%22scabbed%7Cscabbing+off%7Cfrom%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=RfmMsAy-NZ&sig=02cu2I_SWxphcHeJYyvEDIwnI9A&hl=en&sa=X&ei=veYwUKuvGOeWiQfvx4HQBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22scabbed%7Cscabbing%20off%7Cfrom%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false | page=121
|passage=The bark that wasn′t already SCABBED off was peppered with beetle
holes.}}
1. [en] To remove part of a surface (from).
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1891 | author=Canadian Senate | title=Select Committee on Railways, Telegraphs and Harbours: Proceedings and Evidence | pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=jvdKAAAAYAAJ&q=%22scabbed%7Cscabbing+off%7Cfrom%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22scabbed%7Cscabbing+off%7Cfrom%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=ZiLLfPOkSK&sig=UqFsGERWd7pAacNUNno4KXVaw0I&hl=en&sa=X&ei=veYwUKuvGOeWiQfvx4HQBA&redir_esc=y | page=265
|passage=The beds shall be SCABBED off to give a solid bearing, no pinning
shall be admitted between the backing and the face stones and there shall be a
good square joint not exceeding one inch in width, and the face stone shall be
SCABBED off to allow this.}}
1. [en] To act as a strikebreaker.
2. * [en]
3. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=April 5 1903 | author= [Jack London] | journal=The Scab
|passage=Nobody desires to SCAB, to give most for least. The ambition of
every individual is quite the opposite, to give least for most; and, as a
result, living in a tooth-and-nail society, battle royal is waged by the
ambitious individuals.}}
1. [en] To beg (for), to cadge or bum .
2. * 2004 , Niven Govinden, _We are the New Romantics_ , Bloomsbury Publishing, UK, |scabbing+off | from%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=qlA-afCBV7&sig=lXUliS1VwJnx_G_anuGODOuqv0E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=veYwUKuvGOeWiQfvx4HQBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22scabbed | scabbing%20off | from%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 143 (see http://books.google.com.au/books?id=z5mHTP7A7AIC&pg=PA143&lpg=PA143&dq=%22scabbed) ,
3. *: Finding a spot in a covered seating area that was more bus shelter than tourist-friendly, I unravelled a mother of a joint I′d SCABBED off the garçon.
4. * 2006 , Linda Jaivin, _The Infernal Optimist_ , 2010, HarperCollins Australia, |scabbing+off | from%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=a7BbqYTa_w&sig=1rsWuT5FlKRIoDemvOiF5rIwnok&hl=en&sa=X&ei=veYwUKuvGOeWiQfvx4HQBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22scabbed | scabbing%20off | from%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false unnumbered page (see http://books.google.com.au/books?id=A8jwqGZ6fB0C&pg=PT213&lpg=PT213&dq=%22scabbed) ,
5. *: I′d already used up me mobile credit. I was using a normal phone card, what I got from Hamid, what got it from a church lady what helped the refugees. I didn′t like SCABBING from the asylums, but they did get a lotta phone cards.
6. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2010 | author=Fiona Wood | title=Six Impossible Things | pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VQBxOok4aiUC&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113&dq=%22scabbed%7Cscabbing+off%7Cfrom%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=f4mKq4B7Jy&sig=uiRyvNUwGXtHIb5NuSN_WjS9wJU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=veYwUKuvGOeWiQfvx4HQBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22scabbed%7Cscabbing%20off%7Cfrom%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false | page=113
|passage=I′ve told Fred we can see a movie this weekend, but that just seems
like a money-wasting activity. And I can′t keep SCABBING off my best
friend.}}
**** Translations
[to become covered by a scab or scabs]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[to form into scabs and be shed]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[to remove part of a surface]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[to act as a strikebreaker]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[slang: to beg or bum]<!-- Please add only slang expressions here!! -->
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
[trans-bottom]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Irish
*** Verb
[pres=~ann]
1. [ga]
**** Conjugation
[sc]