Noun: scab
Sample Sentences
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Scab was the terror of the sheep farmer, and the peril of his calling. [1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 306:]
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Out, scab! [c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, act 2, scene 5:]
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I would make thee the / loathsomest scab in Greece. [c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:]
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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. [c. 1910s, Jack London (attributed), The Scab]
Nouns inflected like scab
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English scabb, scabbe (also as shabbe, schabbe > English shab), from Old English sċeabb and Old Norse skabb, both from Proto-Germanic *skabbaz (“scab, scabies”), from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ- (“to cut, split, carve, shape”). Doublet of shab. Cognate with German Schabe (“scabies”), Danish skab (“scab, scabies”), Swedish skabb (“scab, scabies”), Latin scabies (“scab, itch, mange”). Related also to Old English scafan (“to scrape, shave”), Latin scabere (“to scratch”), English shabby. See: English Nouns '
shab', German Nouns '
Schabe', Danish Nouns '
skab', Swedish Nouns '
skabb', Latin Nouns '
scabies', Old English Nouns '
scafan', Latin Nouns '
scabere'.
Verbs referencing "scab"
Old English Nouns
sceabb, German Nouns
Schabe.