SCAB

scab

(noun) the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion

scab, strikebreaker, blackleg, rat

(noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike

scab

(verb) form a scab; “the wounds will eventually scab”

fink, scab, rat, blackleg

(verb) take the place of work of someone on strike

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

scab (countable and uncountable, plural scabs)

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.

(uncountable) Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).

Coordinate term: blight

Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.

(plant disease) Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.

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

Coordinate term: flash (material left around the edge of a moulded part)

A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.

Synonym: Thesaurus:villain

(derogatory, slang) A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker.

Synonyms: blackleg, knobstick, scalie

Verb

scab (third-person singular simple present scabs, present participle scabbing, simple past and past participle scabbed)

(intransitive) To become covered by a scab or scabs.

(intransitive) To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.

(transitive) To remove part of a surface (from).

(intransitive) To act as a strikebreaker.

(transitive, UK, Australia, NZ, informal) To beg (for), to cadge or bum.

Anagrams

• ABCS, ABCs, B. A. Sc., B.A.Sc., BACS, BACs, BASc, CABs, CASB, CBSA, Cabs, SABC, SCBA, bacs, cabs

Source: Wiktionary

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Scab, n. Etym: [OE. scab, scabbe, shabbe; cf. AS. scæb, sceabb, scebb, Dan. & Sw. skab, and also L. scabies, tr. scabere to scratch, akin to E. shave. See Shave, and cf. Shab, Shabby.]

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

2. The itch in man; also, the scurvy. [Colloq. or Obs.]

3. The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep. Chaucer.

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

5. (Founding)

Definition: A slight iregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.

6. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow. [Low] Shak.

7. 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. [Cant]

Scab, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scabbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Scabbing.]

Definition: To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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