Scab

What do we mean by scab?

A crust discharged from and covering a healing wound. noun

Scabies or mange in domestic animals or livestock, especially sheep. noun

Any of various plant diseases caused by fungi or bacteria and resulting in crustlike spots on fruit, leaves, or roots. noun

The spots caused by such a disease. noun

A person regarded as contemptible. noun

A worker who refuses membership in a labor union. noun

An employee who works while others are on strike; a strikebreaker. noun

A person hired to replace a striking worker. noun

To become covered with scabs or a scab. intransitive verb

To work or take a job as a scab. intransitive verb

To form a scab or scabby incrustation; become covered with a scab or scabs; specifically, to heal over; cicatrize; repair solution of continuity of a surface by the formation of a new skin or cicatrix.

An incrusted substance, dry and rough, formed over a sore in healing. noun

The mange, or some mangy disease caused by the presence of a parasite, as an itch-insect; scabies. noun

A mean, paltry, or shabby fellow: a term of contempt. noun

Specifically, in recent use, a workman who is not or refuses to become a member of a labor-union, who refuses to join in a strike, or who takes the place of a striker: an opprobrious term used by the workmen or others who dislike his action. noun

In botany, a fungous disease affecting various fruits, especially apples and pears, in which a black mold appears, often distorting or destroying the fruit. noun

In founding, any projection on a casting caused by a defect in the sand-mold. noun

Having to do with “scabs,” or made by them: used opprobriously: as, scab mills; scab labor; scab shoes.

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

The scabies.

The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.

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 scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.

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.

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

Words that are spelled similarly to scab:
scab.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word scab:
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Words that rhyme with scab:
crab, dab, lab, tab, grab, fab, slab, drab, cab, jab, gab, stab, nab, ab, ahab, flab, rab, mab, bab, taxicab, punjab, prefab, blue crab, biology lab, glab, knab, pea crab, olive drab, rhabdom, crabbe, hermit crab, prab, king crab, fiddler crab, horseshoe crab, hansom cab, flowering crab, nabb, tabb, crabb, science lab, krabbe, type ab, group ab, chemistry lab, giant crab, babb, bio lab, line of gab, sand dab, cancer the crab, chem lab, oyster crab, labbe, european spider crab, siberian crab, spider crab, rabb, cherry crab, stone crab, alaska king crab, alaskan king crab, alaska crab, american lady crab, iowa crab, mcnab, sabb, english lady crab, lady crab, abdom, fast of ab, ninth of ab, bechtel crab, physics lab, mcnabb, prairie crab, macnab, minilab, calico crab, jonah crab, mantis crab, asian horseshoe crab, corn dab, wild crab, fermilab, garland crab, swimming crab, rock crab, japanese crab, golab, grabbe, colab, ecolab, eyelab, genelab, goodtab, knabb, kuttab, movielab, schab.

Adjectives that are often used to describe scab:
common, dry, black, powdery, small, sheep, thick, apple, brown, pear, thin, hard, dark, large, old, yellow, big, last, potato, red, protective, brownish, crusty, corky, dirty, sarcoptic, ugly, fresh, susceptible, artificial, citrus, tiny, central, adherent, firm, huge, yellowish, bloody, solid, non, peach, blackish, like, colored, coloured, tough, soft, lousy, grey, crusted, laminated, dried, wheat, slight, round, anti, pecan, moist, healthy, superficial, orange, minute, colossal, giant, psoroptic, capitalist, shaped, servletcontextattributeevent, light, granular, necrotic, russet, looking, bacterial, loathsomest, damned, characteristic, sweet, hardened, cattle, dense.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective scab:
fungus, mite, picking, formation, lands, legislation, head, eye, labor, resistance, herder, herders, coal, pate, control, organism, today, disease, mites, atmosphere, infection, movement, virus.

Consonant match to scab:
skibbe.

Words that sound like scab:
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