noun · countable / uncountable · rare

scab

scab · scabs

короста, струп

корочка, парша, струп, короста

Schorf, Kruste, Wundschorf, Wundkruste

An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healingAn incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.

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/skæb/

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Meaning

9 senses

(countable, uncountable)An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
Schorf, Kruste, Wundschorf
струпstrup, коро́стаkorósta, ко́рочкаkóročka
струпstrup, коро́стаkorósta
(countable, uncountable)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).
парша́paršá
(countable, uncountable)Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
Kartoffelschorf
(countable, uncountable)Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
Schorf
парша́paršá
(countable, uncountable)A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
(countable, uncountable)A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
мерза́вецmerzávec
(countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable)A worker who acts against trade union policies; any picket crosser (strikebreaker), and especially one with devotion to union busting.
(colloquial, countable, obsolete, uncountable)The scabies.

More definitions

the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion
someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike

Examples

20 sentences

How did you get those scabs?
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His belly button piercing started scabbing up.
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His belly button hole started scabbing up.
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One scabbed sheep infects a whole flock.
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His belly button hole is going to scab up.
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Translations

9 languages

Українська

By meaning 1

incrustation over a wound:

Русский

By meaning 3

incrustation over a wound:

group of diseases of potatoes:

mean, dirty, paltry fellow:

Deutsch

By meaning 2

incrustation over a wound:

common scab:

Origin

From Middle English scabb, scabbe (also as shabbe, schabbe > English shab), from Old Engli

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.

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