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Definition: Scab |
ScabNoun1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike. 2. The crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion. Verb1. Form a scab; of wounds. 2. Take the place of work of someone on strike. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scab" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Hyperplastic symptom characterised by hard, crusty lesions formed by excessive cork formation. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A short piece of wood fixed to a wooden support; it serves as a support in joining. Source: European Union. (references) |
Law | A worker who continues to work when a strike or other form of industrial action has been called. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | The crust formed by the drying of the pus of an ulcer or a superficial sore. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | A projection on the surface of an ingot caused by steel flowing into a cavity in the wall of an imperfect mould or by metal from the wall of the mould adhering to the surface of the ingot. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A relatively thin film or tongue of metal imperfectly attached to the surface of the steel. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A flake of mould material trapped within the metal surface. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. To trim rough blocks of stone with a pick or broad chisel; used by quarrymen. See also:scabble b. A person who works at a mine contrary to union orders or during a strike c. A defect consisting of a flat volume of metal jointed to a casting through a small area. It is usually set in a depression, a flat side being separated from the metal of the casting proper by a thin layer of sand d. A fault in the base metal for vitreous enameling; the scab is a partially detached piece of metal (which may subsequently have been rolled into the metal surface) and is liable to cause faults in the appliedenamel coating. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: The dictionary defines "scab" as "a crust formed over a wound or sore". Definition: A scab is a worker, typically a non-union employee, that works in place of a striking worker. Context: This term would be used by union employees, during a strike, to refer to replacement workers. Social Source: SEIU-OPEU Local 085 Union Members. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
| Noun. Source: Comes from the word scab that refers to the unsightly occurrence that covers wounds. Definition: A person who works non-union. Context: Used by union construction workers to talk about the non-union workers. Social Source: Construction Workers. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
Slang in 1811 | SCAB. A worthless man or woman. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ScabSynonyms: strikebreaker (n), blackleg (v), cicatrize (v), rat (v), scab over (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Tergiversation | Turn coat, turn tippet; rat, apostate, renegade; convert, pervert; proselyte, deserter; backslider; blackleg, crawfish, scab, mugwump, recidivist. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Scab |
| English words defined with "scab": cicatrize ♦ Dartars ♦ eschar ♦ Roin ♦ scab over, Scabbed, Scabbing, Shab, Subcrustaceous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "scab": expansion scab ♦ scab lands. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "scab": Roynish. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Scab Tim Mahoney (1911) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Though death due to a Brown Recluse bite is rare, there is ensuing tissue deterioration at the long-standing wound site, which seems to avoid scab formation. Credit: CDC. |  | Medium shot of Scab Land Daisy habitat, Lakeview District. Credit: Terry Spivey. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Sir Henry Wotton | The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Some sores are covered by a scab. The sores can be painless or painful. (references) | |
In the first few weeks after transurethral surgery, the scab inside the bladder may loosen, and blood may suddenly appear in the urine. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Scab" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Scab" is used about 61 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 61 | 43,149 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "scab". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Gareb | N/A | Biblical | A scab |
| Zorah | N/A | Biblical | Scab |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "scab": Crown scab ♦ expansion scab ♦ false scab ♦ potato scab bacteria ♦ russet scab ♦ scab formation ♦ scab it ♦ scab labor ♦ scab labour ♦ scab lands ♦ scab mite ♦ scab on a wound ♦ scab over ♦ scab spots ♦ sulphate scab ♦ wheat scab. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "scab": scab-free, scab-prone, scab-rar-toom. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
apple scab | 43 | apple crab scab | 3 |
scab | 40 | pecan scab | 3 |
picking scab | 10 | crabapple scab | 3 |
kona scab | 7 | potato scab | 3 |
scab union | 5 | list scab | 2 |
nurse scab | 4 | compulsive picking scab | 2 |
airline list scab | 4 | nursing scab | 2 |
scab scalp | 3 | scab wheat | 2 |
penis scab | 3 | citrus scab | 2 |
org scab | 3 | soap scab shoes | 2 |
healing scab | 3 | apple scab treatment | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "scab"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zgjebe (itch, mange, scabies), njeri i paturpshëm (roue, saucebox), maskara (bastard, blackguard, miscreant), llum (dregs, dross, grounds, Lees, ooze, raff, ragtag, riffraff, scum, scut, sludge, tails, vermin, wash), kore (crust, incrustation), grevëthyes (blackleg, fink, strikebreaker), dregëz (crust). (various references) | |
Arabic | فاسق (bawdy, debauched, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, don juan, fornicator, immoral, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libertine, licentious, light, lubricious, miscreant, obscene, philanderer, profligate, punk, raffish, rakish, scarlet, slippery, unchaste, uninhibited, wanton), نقض الإضراب, نزل (bring down, camp, cantonal, climb down, come down, decline, depress, descend, drop, get down, get off, glide, go down, hostel, inn, lodge, lodging house, low, lower, miscreant, move, nest, pull down, put down, rascal, reach down, road house, scroll, send, shade, sink, slip down, step down, take down, tavern), ناقض الأضراب, قشرة الجرح, جرب مرض (scabies), جرب الماشية, جرب (experience, experiment, give it a try, give it a whirl, have a go, pilot, proof, tempt, test, try, try out), إبتلى بالجرب. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | струпей (eschar), стачкоизменник (blackleg, fink, knobstick, rat, strikebreaker), ставам стачкоизменник, краста по кората на дърветата, краста (itch, mange, scabies), коричка (crust, incrustation, scale), кел (tinea), отказвам да членувам в профсъюз, образувам коричка, зараствам (cicatrize, heal, knit together, set, skin over). (various references) | |
Chinese | 皽 , 痂 , 瘩 (boil, sore), 斑点病. (various references) | |
Czech | svrab (psoriasis, scabies), strup (Slough), stávkokaz (blackleg, rat, strikebreaker). (various references) | |
Danish | strejkebryder (blackleg, non-striker, strikebreaker), splint (alburnum, sapwood, shell, sliver, spill, splinter), skruebrækker (blackleg, non-striker, strikebreaker), skorpe (cake, crust, rind), skab (cabinet, closet, cupboard, sideboard), sårskorpe (clot, coagulation, crust), klat, klamp (cleat), dobbelthud (shell), blodskorpe (clot, coagulation, crust). (various references) | |
Dutch | stakingsbreker (blackleg, non-striker, strikebreaker), schurft (apple scab, cherry polypus, itch, mange, scabies), schoor (abutment), schilfer (scale), scabiës (mange, scabies), werkwillige (blackleg, non-striker, strikebreaker), rat (rat), onderkruiper (blackleg, non-striker, strikebreaker), korst (bark, crust, rhytidome, rind), crusta phlogistica (clot, coagulation, crust), crusta (crust), brats. (various references) | |
Farsi | پوسته پوسته شدن , پوست زخم , گری (Mange), گر (Mange, Mangey, Mangy), جرب (Itch, Mange, Scabies), اثرزخم , دلمه بستن زخم , دله (Glutton). (various references) | |
Finnish | syyhytauti (mange, scabies), syyhy (itch), rupi (crust, scurf), metallikuori (shell, sliver, spill), lakonrikkuri (blackleg, rat, strike-breaker), kuoriutuma, kuori (bark, case, chancel, choir, crust, fruit skin, hull, husk, jacket, peel, shell), kapi (mange, scabies). (various references) | |
French | jaune, gale (scabies), escarre, croûte, briseur de grève. (various references) | |
German | Schorf (crust, scaly skin, scurf, Slough), Krätze (basket, scabies, scrapings), Streikbrecher (blackleg, strike breaker, strikebreaker, strikebreakers), Grind. (various references) | |
Greek | ψώρα (itch, mange, manginess, scabies). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משפח (injustice, misjudgement), ל"פר שבית" (blackleg), חכך. (various references) | |
Hungarian | rüh (mange, psora, scabies), heg (callus, cicatrice, cicatrices, cicatrix, crust, scar), ótvar (itch, ringworm, scald-head). (various references) | |
Indonesian | koreng (sore, ulceration). (various references) | |
Italian | scabbia (itch, mange, scabies), rogna (itch, mange, nuisance, scabies, stinker), crumiro (blackleg, strikebreaker). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | スト り (snack, snack bar, sniper, strikebreaker, strikebreaking). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ストやぶり (strikebreaker, strikebreaking). (various references) | |
Korean | "지. (various references) | |
Manx | yn screb (mange), scroig (crust, incrustation, scale, scarf-skin, slime), screbbaghey (scabbing), screbbag, neustholkeyr, jannoo scroig, jannoo screb, gorley screbbagh, carragh (carious, crazy, rocky, rough, scurfy, scurvy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abscay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sarna (mange, scabies). (various references) | |
Romanian | spãrgãtor de grevã (blackleg, rat, Ratter, strike breaker), se umple de scabie, se acoperi cu o crustã, scabie (itch, scald), ticãlos (a bad egg, base, cad, canting, cur, dark, dirty, felon, foul, heel, hound, impious, kite, knave, knavish, knavishly, low-minded, mean, meanly, miscreant, paltry, perverse, picaroon, rapscallion, rascal, rascally, recreant, reprobate, ruffian, scabby, scamp, scoundrel, scurvy, serpentine, shabby, skunk, sneak, sneaking, vile, villain, villainous, wretch, wretched), ruginã (rush, rust), râie (itch, Ray), pungaş (biter, cheat, Cutpurse, duffer, fraud, gun, jockey, juggler, knave, lurcher, manipulator, mountebank, pickpocket, pilferer, prig, rascal, rogue, rook, rough, shark, snap, swindler, thief), netrebnic (a dirty dog, good for nothing, knave, knavish, picaroon, rascal, reprobate, sneak, useless, vile, villain, worthless, wretch), forma o crustã, fi spãrgãtor de grevã, favus, escroc (bilk, biter, blackguard, blackleg, carpet bagger, charlatan, cheat, crook, desperado, double-dealer, duffer, faker, fraud, gambler, gamester, gouge, gyp, impostor, jockey, juggler, knave, mountebank, rogue, rook, shark, sharp, sharper, snap, swindler), crustã (crust, incrustation, rind, scurf, skin). (various references) | |
Russian | струп (crust, eschar). (various references) | |
Scottish | sgab, cloimh. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | krasta (tinea), štrajkbreher (strikebreaker). (various references) | |
Spanish | roña (mange, stinginess), esquirol (blackleg, fink, strikebreaker), costra (crust, incrustation, rind). (various references) | |
Swedish | skabb (itch, mange, scabbies, scabies, scurf), svartfot (fink), strejkbrytare (blackleg, fink, rat, strikebreaker, strike-breaker). (various references) | |
Thai | สะเก็"แผล, ตกสะเก็" (scabby, scale). (various references) | |
Turkish | yara kabuğu, uyuz (heartless, inert, itch, itchy, languid, mange, mangy, scabby, scabies, scabious, slouching, slouchy, stick in the mud), koyun uyuzu, kabuklanmak (crust, crust over, pod, scale), kabuk bağlamak (cake, encrust, form a crust, heal over, incrust, scab over, scar over, skin over, Slough), kabuk (bark, carapace, coat, cockle, cockleshell, cortes, covering, crust, encrustation, eschar, Hull, husk, incrustation, integument, jacket, mantle, nutshell, Peel, pod, rind, scale, scurf, shell, shuck, skin, squama), it herif (hound, rotter, tyke, yellow dog), grev kırıcı (blackleg, strike breaker). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | струп (crust, eschar), тесати камінь, штрейкбрехер (fink, strikebreaker), короста (cratch, mange, scabies, scald), бути штрейкбрехером, покриватися струпами. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | kẻ nhận l m thay chỗ công nhân đình công, công nhân không tham gia đình công. (various references) | |
Welsh | cramen (crust), crachen. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | achor, Elsinoe batatas, nosogenum:Sarcoptes spp.(Arachnidae), scabies. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | sceabb. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | escare. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Leviticus Chapter 14, Verse 56 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai oulhV kai shmasiaV kai tou augazontoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Cicatricis et erumpentium papularum lucentis maculae et in varias species coloribus inmutatis |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And howsis, and of fel wounde, and of bleynes brekynge out, and of wemme liytynge, and in dyuerse spices the colours chaungid, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And of rysynges, scabbes and glysterynge white |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And for a growth or a bad place or a bright mark on the skin; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Leviticus Chapter 14, Verse 56 |
| Cebuano | Ug mahatungod sa hubag, ug sa kugan, ug sa kabang nga maputi; |
| Chinese | 以 及 癤 子 、 癬 、 火 斑 、 所 立 的 條 例 ． |
| Croatian | za otekline, lišaje ili pjege. |
| Danish | og om Hævelser, Udslæt og lyse Pletter, |
| Dutch | Mitsgaders voor gezwel, en voor gezweer, en voor blaren; |
| Finnish | nystyröistä, ihottumista ja vaaleista pilkuista, |
| French | pour les tumeurs, les dartres et les taches: |
| German | über Beulen, Ausschlag und Eiterweiß, |
| Hungarian | A daganatnak, a tarjagosságnak és a fehér foltnak; |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | dan lagi akan bengkak dan puru dan panau, |
| Italian | i tumori, le pustole e le macchie, |
| Maori | Mo te puku, mo te paku, mo te wahi tu a kanapa nei: |
| Norwegian | og om knuter i huden og om utslett og om lyse flekker på huden - |
| Portuguese | da inchação, das pústulas e das manchas lustrosas; |
| Rumanian | pentru umflqturi, pentru pecingini wi pentru pete: |
| Swedish | om upphöjningar på huden, utslag och ljusa fläckar, |
| Ukrainian | і для напухлини, і для лишаю, і для білої плями, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scab": scabbard, scabbarded, scabbarding, scabbards, scabbed, scabbier, scabbiest, scabbily, scabbing, scabble, scabbled, scabbles, scabbling, scabby, scabies, scabietic, scabiosa, scabiosas, scabious, scabiouses, scabland, scablands, scablike, scabrous, scabrously, scabrousness, scabrousnesses, scabs. (additional references) | |
Words containing "scab": cascabel, cascabels, cascable, cascables, confiscable. (additional references) | |
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"Scab" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acab, bcab, Csabd, csb, csob, Hcab, Hcba, Icgb, lsca, saab, sab, sabc, Sacab, sacau, sacb, sca, scabb, scabe, scae, scaf, scag, scal, Scarbo, scav, scaw, Scawby, scbr, scbu, Scca, Scda, scea, sceaf, sceb, scec, Schaub, scibe, scob, scov, scrab, scrabo, scub, Seab, secca, sgab, Siab, sicav, ska, skab, skabe, skaz, skib, skub, snab, snabb, soab, Spab, spca, Ssab, suca. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "scab" (pronounced ska"b) |
| 3 | -k a" b | cab. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cabs. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-s" | |
-1 letter: abs, bas, cab, sab, sac. | |
-2 letters: ab, as, ba. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-s" | |
+1 letter: backs, basic, carbs, crabs, scabs, scuba. | |
+2 letters: abacas, abacus, baches, bacons, bancos, basics, becaps, blacks, braces, brachs, bracts, cabals, cabers, cabins, cables, cabobs, carbos, carobs, casaba, casbah, ceibas, cobias, cobras, sacbut, scabby, scarab, scubas. | |
+3 letters: abduces, abducts, abscess, abscise, abscond, absence, ambsace, ascribe, aucubas, backers, backsaw, backset, backups, bascule, basilic, batches, beaches, beacons, becalms, because, beclasp, bibasic, bicarbs, bifaces, bipacks, bobcats, boccias, bonacis, boraces, boscage, boxcars, bracers, braches, buckras, bucksaw, cabalas, cabanas, cabbies, cablets, caboose, cambers, cambism, cambist, carbons, carboys, caribes, casabas, casbahs, cashbox, cassaba, chablis, chabuks, cobalts, combats, confabs, corbans, crambes, crambos, cubages, cymbals, dibasic, fabrics, hubcaps, iambics, jacobus, mobcaps, rubaces, sacbuts, sackbut, sambuca, sawbuck, scabbed, scabble, scabies, scarabs, scribal, scumbag, sebacic, sebasic, setback, sickbay, subacid, subclan, subrace, succuba, sunback, tambacs, tombacs. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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