scab

scab

scab (third-person singular simple present scabs, present participle scabbing, simple past and past participle scabbed)

1. (intransitive) To get covered by a scab.
2. (intransitive) To act as strikebreaker.
3. (transitive, Australian) To beg (for), cadge, bum

   I scabbed some money off a friend.

scab (plural scabs)

1. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
2. (colloquial or obsolete) The scabies.
3. The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.

   • 1882: Scab was the terror of the sheep farmer, and the peril of his calling. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 306.

4. Several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by Streptomyces -bacteria.
5. Short form for common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab caused by Streptomyces scabies.
6. (botany) Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases attacking cultivated plants, and forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
7. (founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
8. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
9. (slang) A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker.

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

	rogna
	group of diseases of potatoes
	common scab
	fungus disease of plants

	crumira
	strikebreaker

	crumiro
	strikebreaker

	gretto
	mean, dirty, paltry fellow

	meschino
	mean, dirty, paltry fellow

	scabbia
	common scab

	sfoglia
	founding irregularity

	spregevole
	mean, dirty, paltry fellow

escara

Altri significati:

(founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.

(slang) A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker.

Short form for common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab caused by Streptomyces scabies.

to get covered by a scab

(intransitive) To act as strikebreaker.

(transitive, Australian) To beg (for), cadge, bum

The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.

Several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by Streptomyces -bacteria.

A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.

(botany) Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases attacking cultivated plants, and forming dark-colored crustlike spots.

(colloquial or obsolete) The scabies.

(intransitive) To get covered by a scab.

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