scab

English

/skæb/

noun
Definitions
  • An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
  • (colloquial) 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).
  • common Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by .
  • (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.
  • A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
  • (derogatory) A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English scabb inherited from Old English sċeabb derived from Old Norse skabb (scab, scabies) inherited from Proto-Germanic *skabbaz (scabies, scab) derived from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ- (scratch, split, cut, carve, hold up, shape, form).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*skabʰ-

Gloss

scratch, split, cut, carve, hold up, shape, form

Concept
Semantic Field

The body

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

体

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