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Ascab (sense 1)

Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishscabb,scabbe (also asshabbe,schabbe >Englishshab), fromOld Englishsċeabb andOld Norseskabb, both fromProto-Germanic*skabbaz(“scab, scabies”), fromProto-Indo-European*skabʰ-(“to cut, split, carve, shape”).Doublet ofshab. Cognate withGermanSchabe(“scabies”),Danishskab(“scab, scabies”),Swedishskabb(“scab, scabies”),Latinscabies(“scab, itch, mange”). Related also toOld Englishscafan(“to scrape, shave”),Latinscabere(“to scratch”),Englishshabby.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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scab (countable anduncountable,pluralscabs)

  1. Anincrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
  2. (colloquial or obsolete) Thescabies.
  3. Themange, especially when it appears onsheep.
    • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers,A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page306:
      Scab was the terror of the sheep farmer, and the peril of his calling.
  4. (uncountable) Any of several differentdiseases ofpotatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused bystreptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).
    Coordinate term:blight
  5. Common scab, a relatively harmless variety ofscab (potato disease) caused byStreptomyces scabies.
  6. (phytopathology) Any one of various more or less destructivefungaldiseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
  7. (founding) A slightirregularprotuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of themold.
    Coordinate term:(material left around the edge of a moulded part)flash
  8. A mean, dirty,paltry fellow.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:villain
  10. (derogatory, slang) A worker who acts againsttrade union policies; anypicket crosser (strikebreaker), and especially one with devotion tounion busting.
    • c. 1910s,London, Jack (attributed),TheScab:
      When ascab 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.
    Synonyms:blackleg,blacklegger,knobstick,scalie

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Translations

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incrustation over a wound
scabies—seescabies
mange—seemange
group of diseases of potatoes
common scab
fungus disease of plants
founding irregularity
mean, dirty, paltry fellow
strikebreaker—seestrikebreaker
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Verb

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scab (third-person singular simple presentscabs,present participlescabbing,simple past and past participlescabbed)

  1. (intransitive) To become covered by a scab or scabs.
  2. (intransitive) To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
    • 1734, Royal Society of London,The Philosophical Transactions (1719 - 1733) Abridged, Volume 7,page 631,
      Thoſe Puſtules aroſe, maturated, andſcabbed off, intirely like the true Pox.
    • 2009, Linda Wisdom,Wicked By Any Other Name,page233:
      Trev walked over and leaned down, dropping a tender kiss on her forehead where the skin was raw andscabbing from the cut.
    • 2009, Nancy Lord,Rock, Water, Wild: An Alaskan Life,page121:
      The bark that wasn′t alreadyscabbed off was peppered with beetle holes.
  3. (transitive) To remove part of a surface (from).
    • 1891, Canadian Senate,Select Committee on Railways, Telegraphs and Harbours: Proceedings and Evidence,page265:
      The beds shall bescabbed 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 bescabbed off to allow this.
  4. (intransitive) To act as a strikebreaker.
    • 1931, “Which Side Are You On?”, performed by Florence Patton Reece:
      Don'tscab for the bosses / Don't listen to their lies / Us poor folks haven't got a chance / Unless we organize.
    • 1903 April 5,London, Jack,The Scab:
      Nobody desires toscab, 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.
  5. (transitive, UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) Tobeg (for), tocadge orbum.
    Iscabbed some money off a friend.
    • 2004, Niven Govinden,We are the New Romantics, Bloomsbury Publishing, UK,page 143,
      Finding a spot in a covered seating area that was more bus shelter than tourist-friendly, I unravelled a mother of a joint I′dscabbed off the garçon.
    • 2006, Linda Jaivin,The Infernal Optimist, 2010, HarperCollins Australia,unnumbered page,
      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 likescabbing from the asylums, but they did get a lotta phone cards.
    • 2010, Fiona Wood,Six Impossible Things,page113:
      I′ve told Fred we can see a movie this weekend, but that just seems like a money-wasting activity. And I can′t keepscabbing off my best friend.

Translations

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to become covered by a scab or scabs
to form into scabs and be shed
to remove part of a surface
to act as a strikebreaker
slang: to beg or bum

Anagrams

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Irish

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Verb

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scab (present analyticscabann,future analyticscabfaidh,verbal nounscabadh,past participlescabtha)

  1. Alternative form ofscaip(“to disperse, scatter”)

Conjugation

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conjugation ofscab (first conjugation – A)
verbal nounscabadh
past participlescabtha
tensesingularpluralrelativeautonomous
firstsecondthirdfirstsecondthird
indicative
presentscabaimscabann tú;
scabair†		scabann sé, síscabaimidscabann sibhscabann siad;
scabaid†		ascabann; ascabasscabtar
pastscab mé;scabasscab tú;scabaisscab sé, síscabamar;scab muidscab sibh;scababhairscab siad;scabadarascab /
arscab*		scabadh
past habitualscabainnscabtáscabadh sé, síscabaimis;scabadh muidscabadh sibhscabaidís;scabadh siadascabadh /
ascabadh*		scabtaí
futurescabfaidh mé;
scabfad		scabfaidh tú;
scabfair†		scabfaidh sé, síscabfaimid;
scabfaidh muid		scabfaidh sibhscabfaidh siad;
scabfaid†		ascabfaidh; ascabfasscabfar
conditionalscabfainnscabfáscabfadh sé, síscabfaimis;scabfadh muidscabfadh sibhscabfaidís;scabfadh siadascabfadh /
ascabfadh*		scabfaí
subjunctive
presentgoscaba mé;
goscabad†		goscaba tú;
goscabair†		goscaba sé, sígoscabaimid;
goscaba muid		goscaba sibhgoscaba siad;
goscabaid†		—goscabtar
pastdáscabainndáscabtádáscabadh sé, sídáscabaimis;
dáscabadh muid		dáscabadh sibhdáscabaidís;
dáscabadh siad		—dáscabtaí
imperative
–scabaimscabscabadh sé, síscabaimisscabaigí;
scabaidh†		scabaidís—scabtar

* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form

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