scabn.

Brit.

/skab/, U.S.

/skæb/

Forms: Middle English–1500s scabbe, Middle English–1600s skab, Middle English–1500s skabbe, 1500s skabe, scappe, 1500s–1600s scabb, Middle English– scab.

Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse *skabb-r.

Etymology: < Old Norse *skabb-r (Middle Swedish skabb-er , modern Swedish skabb , Danish skab from the 13th cent.), corresponding to Old English sceabb shab n., see for cognate forms. With sense 4 compare Middle Dutch schabbe, applied to women with the senses ‘slut’ and ‘scold’; possibly this word, used by foreign vagrants, may have helped the development of the sense in English; its etymological relation to early modern Dutch schabbe (Kilian), Flemish dialect schab itch (= Old English sceabb) is not clear. The occurrence of the word in Kentish of the 13th cent. is a difficulty, as the Scandinavian form would be unlikely to be adopted in that dialect. Perhaps the word may in this passage represent the Old English sceabb, with archaizing spelling due to the influence of the Latin scabies, which it here renders (compare Leviticus xiii. 6, Vulgate). Association with the Latin word of similar sound has influenced the later medical use.

†1.

a. Disease of the skin in which pustules or scales are formed: a general term for skin diseases, but sometimes spec. = itch or scabies (also, dry scab), ringworm or tinea, syphilis; wet scab, eczema.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > scurfy or scabby state or disease

scurfc1000

scabc1250

scallc1374

lepraa1398

morphoeaa1398

scalledness1398

morphewa1400

scabiesc1400

scale14..

scruff14..

shellsc1400

rove?c1450

scabnessc1450

scabbedness1483

scaldness1527

scurfinessa1529

scaledness1530

dandruff1545

skalfering1561

bran1574

room1578

reefa1585

scabbiness1584

scald1598

skilfers1599

scabiosity1608

scalliness1610

scaliness1611

furfur1621

morph1681

pityriasis1684

psoriasis1684

porrigo1706

scaly tetter1799

motley dandruff1822

scale-skin1822

parapsoriasis1903

dander-

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > scurfy or scabby state or disease > scale or scab

scabc1250

scale14..

scurf1540

incrustation1656

slurf1674

scruff1710

squama1876

squame1911

c1250 Kent. Serm. in Old Eng. Misc. 31 Si lepre [signefieþ] þo sennen, þet scab bi-tokned þo litle sennen.

a1366 Romaunt Rose 553 Withoute bleyne scabbe or royne.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) vii. lxii Wete scabbe [L. scabies humida] with quitter and scales.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) vii. lxiii Drye scabbe..somtyme..comeþ of stronge colerike mater oþer melancolike..and þis yuel hatte Impetigo.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11820 Þe scab ouer-gas his bodi all.

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 191 Also scabbe, sum is drie & summe is wet. If it be drie, it schal propirli be clepid icche. And if it be moist, it schal be clepid scabbe.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 265/2 Scabbe, roigne.

1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. ii. f. 11^v It healeth scabbes, and vlcers of the skinne.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. iv. i. v. 447 It driues away Leaprosie, Scabbes, cleeres the blood.

1658 F. Osborne Mem. Reigns Elizabeth & James in Wks. (1673) 514 For (spight of his Tarbox) he died of the Scab.

1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 168 I think thou hast got the scab which they call Spanish.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) 114 They commended Unguents of quick-silver against the scab.

1742 tr. Heister's Gen. Syst. Surg. (1768) I. 279 The Term Tinea at present is applied to a large dry Scab, which Children and Infants are subject to upon the Head.

1757 J. Dyer Fleece i. 19 Th' infectious scab, arising from extremes Of want or surfeit.

†b. figurative. Applied to moral or spiritual disease.

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?1529 S. Fish Supplicacyon for Beggers sig. A6^v This is the great scabbe why they will not let the newe testament go a brode yn your moder tong.

c1555 W. Baldwin & T. Palfreyman Treat. Moral Philos. (new ed.) iv. vii. sig. Ivj It is a scabbe of the world, to be enuious at vertue.

1651 G. Herbert Jacula Prudentum 1137 The itch of disputing is the scab of the Church [transl. of the saying Disputandi prurigo est ecclesiæ scabies].

1791 J. Wolcot Rights of Kings in Wks. (1812) II. 429 O for an ointment to destroy the scab Call'd Envy.

a. A cutaneous disease in animals, esp. sheep, resembling the itch and the mange.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of animals generally > [noun] > skin diseases

scabc1386

roinc1400

mangea1425

manginessa1425

scurfc1440

hot spot1967

c1386 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Prol. 30 Of pokkes, and of scabbe,..Shal euery sheepe be hool.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xii This maner of foldyng shall brede no mathes nor skabbe.

a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 66 When they [i.e. sheep] are closyd in ranke pasturys & batful ground they are sone touchyd wyth the skabe.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 110 That free from Gouts thou may'st preserve thy Care [viz. sheep]: And clear from Scabs .

1748 tr. Vegetius Of Distempers Horses 11 Some indeed have attempted to call the Scab the subtercutaneous Distemper.

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 554 Swine that have the scab.

1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 101 The sheep in the north are quite well—whilst the scab reappears yearly in the south.

b. A disease of cultivated plants, due to vegetable parasites, and causing scab-like roughness.

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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > caused by insects > associated with crop or food plants > scab

scab1742

potato scab1882

corky scab1911

1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman July ii. 27 A second..Crop..commonly fares better, by being not in so much Danger of the Worm, Scab, or Anbury, as the first sown are.

1790 Trans. Soc. Arts 8 39 The Potatoe is also liable to other disorders; in very dry seasons, excrescences will arise, vulgarly called the Scab.

1881 Chicago Times 11 June The wet weather is likely to produce scab in growing wheat.

1908 Daily Chron. 30 Oct. 1/7 The disease of black scab is spreading alarmingly among potatoes.

a. The crust which forms over a wound or sore during cicatrization.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound > scab

crust1398

roinc1400

scabc1400

scurfc1440

rovea1500

rig-ruff1611

incrustation1656

scud1825

crusta1842

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 185 Anoynte al his heed..til al þe scabbis þerof be wel tobroke.

1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus Prol. sig. Biij^v They clawe of their owne skabbe.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxx. 110 The skinne being deuided and disvnited with scabbes.

1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. P Old fulsome hags with scabs and skurf bedight.

1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 23 Mar. (1948) I. 222 My sore shin itched, and I forgot what it was, and rubbed off the s—b, and blood came.

1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 371 An elevated smooth brown scab remained..upon each of the children's arms, after all discharge from the part had ceased.

1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. ii. 316 Not unfrequently, when the scab seems fully formed, suppuration still goes on beneath and around it.

figurative.1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. iii. 97 Con. Here man, I am at thy elbow. Bor. Mas and my elbow itcht, I thought there would a scabbe follow. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. i. 164 You dissentious rogues..rubbing the poore Itch of your Opinion, Make your selues Scabs . 1799 S. T. Coleridge Lett. 16 Sept. (1895) 306 Mere cutaneous scabs of loyalty which only ape the king's evil.1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt 72 The great city seemed strangely squalid and mean, a sort of scab that had sprouted at the bosom of ancient and fertile nature.

b. transferred in Iron-founding. (See quot. a1884.)

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1881 C. Wylie Iron Founding 30 To avoid scabs and a bad casting.

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 781/2 Scab, a protuberance on a casting formed by the washing away of the mold~wall.

4. slang. A term of abuse or depreciation applied to persons:

a. A mean, low, ‘scurvy’ fellow; a rascal, scoundrel. †occasionally applied to a woman.

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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > rogue > [noun]

harlot?c1225

truantc1290

shreward1297

boyc1300

lidderon13..

cokinc1330

pautenerc1330

bribera1387

bricouna1400

losarda1400

rascal?a1400

custronc1400

knapea1450

sloven?a1475

limmerc1485

knavatec1506

smaik?1507

smy?1507

koken?a1513

swinger1513

Cock Lorel?1518

pedlar's French1530

varletc1540

losthope?c1550

makeshift1554

wild rogue1567

miligant1568

rogue1568

crack-halter1573

rascallion1582

schelm1584

scoundrel1589

scaba1592

bezonian1592

slave1592

rampallion1593

Scanderbeg1601

roly-poly1602

canter1608

cantler1611

gue1612

fraudsman1613

Cathayana1616

crack-hempa1616

foiterer1616

tilt1620

picaro1622

picaroon1629

sheepmanc1640

rapscallion1648

scaramouch1677

fripon1691

trickster1711

shake-bag1794

sinner1809

cad1838

badmash1843

scattermouch1892

jazzbo1914

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > rogue > [noun] > female

scaba1592

rampallion1593

varletess1747

caddess1870

society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > baseness or moral vileness > person

wretchOE

filthOE

birdc1300

villain1303

caitiffc1330

crachouna1400

crathona1400

custronc1400

sloven?a1475

smaik?1507

rook?a1513

scavenger1563

scald1575

peasant1581

scaba1592

bezonian1592

slave1592

patchcock1596

muckworm1649

blackguard1732

ramscallion1734

nasty1825

cad1838

boundera1889

three-letter man1929

society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > baseness or moral vileness > person > female

cow1696

scab1699

jurra1796

caddess1870

a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. A3^v Loue is such a proud scab, that he will neuer meddle with fooles nor children.

[1600 [see sense 3a]. a1616 [see sense 3a]. ]

1632 Lyly's Endimion (new ed.) iv. ii, in Sixe Court Comedies sig. E2^v Pages. What are yee (scabs?) Watch. The Watch: This the Constable.

1664 C. Cotton Scarronides 15 A vap'ring Scab, and a great Swearer.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Scab, a sorry Wench, or Scoundril-Fellow.

1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman i. 16 The Royal Branch from Pict-land did succeed, With Troops of Scots and Scabs from North-by-Tweed.

1725 J. Swift Wood the Ironmonger 9 This vap'ring Scab must needs devise To ape the Thunder of the Skies.

1735 Sheridan in Swift's Lett. 5 Oct. The devil take all the D's in Christendom, for a pack of saucy scabs.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 18/1 ‘There's a scurf!’ said one; ‘He's a regular scab,’ cried another.

1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. 71 You're three beastly scabs!

b. A workman who refuses to join an organized movement on behalf of his trade; in extended uses: a person who refuses to join a strike or who takes over the work of a striker; a blackleg; a strike-breaker. Originally U.S.

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society > occupation and work > worker > worker according to manner of working > [noun] > striking > refusing to strike

dung1765

scab1777

knobstick1794

leg1815

rat1824

nob1825

black1826

blackneb1832

blacknob1838

knob1839

snob1839

blackleg1844

snob-stick1860

non-striker1868

ratter1890

strike-breaker1904

1777 Bonner & Middleton's Bristol Jrnl. 5 July To the Public. Whereas the Master Cordwainers have gloried, that there has been a Demur amongst the Men's and Women's Men;—we have the Pleasure to inform them, that Matters are amicably settled... The Conflict would not been [sic] so sharp had not there been so many dirty Scabs; no Doubt but timely Notice will be taken of them.

1792 in A. Aspinall Early Eng. Trade Unions (1949) 84 What is a scab? He is to his trade what a traitor is to his country... He first sells the journeymen, and is himself afterwards sold in his turn by the masters, till at last he is despised by both and deserted by all.

1806 Trial of Boot & Shoemakers (Federal Soc. Journeymen Cordwainers, U.S.) 74 I concluded at that time I would turn a scab, unknown to them, and I would continue my work and not let them know of it.

1811 Sel. Cases St. New York I. 262 The offending member was then termed a scab and wherever he was employed no others of the society were allowed to work.

1881 Standard 3 Nov. 3/4 Mr. Abbott asked Passfield if he had not told him he heard Hall call Harris a ‘—— scab’.

1889 C. H. Salmons Burlington Strike 259 The man who takes the place of another when that other engages in a struggle with a corporation, is a ‘scab’.

1890 Leeds Mercury 1 July Many of them acted as pickets with the object of preventing any strangers—commonly known as ‘scabs’, or ‘blacklegs’..from entering the works.

1903 W. T. Mills Struggle for Existence xxxv. 493 The ‘scab’ is no longer the unorganized and hungry worker, waiting at the factory gate.

1926 Contemp. Rev. June 687 The trade union world lies shattered and in ruins [after the General Strike]. There is fierce controversy between volunteers, ‘scabs’, ‘hands-uppers’, and ‘bitter-enders’.

1938 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Sept. 3/1 He had instructed pickets not to call non-strikers ‘finks’ or ‘scabs’ or other epithets.

1974 Socialist Worker 26 Oct. 13/2 180 women walked out. But 70 stayed in... The scabs soon found out what it was like to be hated.

Compounds

C1.

a. attributive and in other combinations, as scab-bringing adj.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [adjective] > of disease: scurfy or scabby > causing

scab-bringing1611

scalling1660

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Escarotique,..skab-bringing.

b. In sense 4b.

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1850 Morning Chron. 11 Feb. 5/6 Having thus given the characteristics and conditions of the ‘legal’, or honourable trade, I next turn my inquiry to the state of the labouring men, women, and children employed by the slop-masters, who are distinguished from the ‘wages’ (or legal) shops by the terms ‘illegal’, ‘scab’, or ‘slaughtershop’ keepers.

1881 Chicago Times 11 June It was decided to stop the purchase of what is termed ‘scab beer’ to-day.

1893 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 27 Sept. Their rules prohibit them to work along with scab switchmen.

1926 Socialist Rev. June 10 The Labour Press..cannot descend to ‘scab’ printing.

1940 M. Lowry Let. 7 May (1967) 31 Two years as a scab lavatory attendant in Saskatchewan.

1958 Spectator 15 Aug. 225/2 British writers, forced to become scab-labour, are undermining it, completely against their wishes.

1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds iii. 60 I suppose some scab contractor undercut me.

C2.

Categories »

scab-mite n. U.S. the itch-mite, Acarus scabiei.

† scab-picker n. Obsolete ? one who treats sheep for the scab.

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the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > veterinarian > other veterinary specialists

scab-picker1499

beast leech1627

dogleech1638

greasera1642

cow-leech1745

bullock-leech1774

cow-doctor1789

theriogenologist1970

1499 in J. Stuart & G. Burnett Exchequer Rolls Scotl. (1888) XI. 394 That na forestar hald undir him in his steid haggar, flegeour, turnour.., pelar of bark, scab pikar [etc.].

scab weed n. New Zealand a low-growing plant of the genus Raoulia, adapted to poor conditions.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > Australasian > other Australian plants

lechenaultia1814

spear-grass1847

Spaniard1851

acroclinium1852

fuchsia1866

scrub vine1866

bayonet grass1868

Scotchman1872

Queensland hemp1876

Spanish soldier1901

bindi-eye1911

scab weed1927

1927 L. Cockayne in R. Speight et al. Nat. Hist. Canterbury 143 Raoulia lutescens... Scabweed.

1933 Discovery Sept. 292/1 The bare land patchily covered by flat ‘scab weed’ looks horribly diseased.

1955 J. K. Baxter Fire & Anvil iii. 78 It survives many droughts..like the scabweed in Central Otago.

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scabv.

Brit.

/skab/, U.S.

/skæb/

Etymology: < scab n.

†1. transitive. To form a scab or scabs upon. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > scab

bescab1611

scab1632

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 376 Great drouth And fiery thirst, that scabbe my lips and mouth.

a. intransitive and passive. To become encrusted with a scab or scabs. Also with over. †to scab off: to shed a scab.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (intransitive)] > be injured > be wounded > scab

scab1683

the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > process of healing of an injury, etc. > of injury, etc.: heal [verb (intransitive)] > of wound: heal > heal over

barka1400

skin1578

cicatrize1582

incarnate1674

scab1683

incarn1689

scar1888

the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (intransitive)] > be injured > be wounded > scab > shed a scab

to scab off1683

1683 London Gaz. No. 1864/8 A little Scar upon the Ribs of the fore-side scab'd.

1703 Mead in Philos. Trans. 1702–03 (Royal Soc.) 23 1296 He pointed to a great many little Pustules not yet Scabb'd over.

1726 P. Huxham in Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 394 Those Pustules arose, maturated, and scabb'd off.

1780 Hunter in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 70 133 The sore being allowed to scab, the slough and scab unite and drop off together.

1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxix. 392 Thus forming two separate ulcers, which speedily scabbed.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 813 A slowly spreading infiltration of the skin, which tends to scab over.

b. Iron-founding. To form ‘scabs’.

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1881 C. Wylie Iron Founding 58 A loam mould run at the top may scab.

a. slang (originally U.S.). To behave as a ‘scab’ or ‘blackleg’. Also with it as quasi-obj. and transitive in to scab a job: to perform, or employ another to perform, the job of a striking worker.

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society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > participate in labour relations [verb (intransitive)] > strike > strike-break

scab1806

blackleg1882

strike-break1961

1806 Trial of Boot & Shoemakers (Federal Soc. Journeymen Cordwainers, U.S.) 75 Their business was to watch the Jers [sc. journeymen] that they did not scab it.

1889 C. H. Salmons Burlington Strike 357 The men..declared that they had never scabbed a day in their lives.

1895 Rep. on Chicago Strike June–July, 1894 (U.S. Strike Commission) 308 If there is a strike ordered I will be damned if I am going to scab.

1898 Scribner's Mag. Oct. 445/2 I won't scab any man's job.

1905 Westm. Gaz. 30 Sept. 10/2 A surplus army of labour which can be relied upon to ‘scab’ on their neighbours when these rebel against the capitalists.

1907 U. Sinclair in Daily Chron. 11 July 3/1 The starving workmen will scab.

1932 E. Wilson Devil take Hindmost xxi. 223 Several speakers protest..that the companies only want to get them out so that they can scab the job.

1969 Times 30 Oct. 10/7 Frantic calls to friends..summoned..a driver who was prepared to scab as a special favour.

1969 Daily Tel. 16 May 27/7 Peaceful pickets outside all entrances will discourage all students from scabbing on the strike.

b. transitive. To treat or label (a person or a firm employing scab labour) as a scab; to ostracize (a person who is a scab). rare.

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society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > participate in labour relations [verb (transitive)] > summon (workers) to strike > break (strike) > label as strike-breaker

scab1806

black1958

1806 Trial of Boot & Shoemakers (Federal Soc. Journeymen Cordwainers, U.S.) 73 They told me if I did not come to the body, I was liable to be scabb'd.

1806 Trial of Boot & Shoemakers (Federal Soc. Journeymen Cordwainers, U.S.) 77 In a little time after this his shop was scabbed.

1888 Montreal Daily Herald 21 Feb. 1/5 Engineers and others who refused to hoist or handle coal during the late effort to ‘scab’ the collieries.

1922 F. B. Young Pilgrim's Rest vi. 409 [The rioting strikers] went away, saying they'd come back again and scab us to-night.

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单词	scab
释义	scabn. Brit. /skab/, U.S. /skæb/ Forms: Middle English–1500s scabbe, Middle English–1600s skab, Middle English–1500s skabbe, 1500s skabe, scappe, 1500s–1600s scabb, Middle English– scab. Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse skabb-r. Etymology: < Old Norse skabb-r (Middle Swedish skabb-er , modern Swedish skabb , Danish skab from the 13th cent.), corresponding to Old English sceabb shab n., see for cognate forms. With sense 4 compare Middle Dutch schabbe, applied to women with the senses ‘slut’ and ‘scold’; possibly this word, used by foreign vagrants, may have helped the development of the sense in English; its etymological relation to early modern Dutch schabbe (Kilian), Flemish dialect schab itch (= Old English sceabb) is not clear. The occurrence of the word in Kentish of the 13th cent. is a difficulty, as the Scandinavian form would be unlikely to be adopted in that dialect. Perhaps the word may in this passage represent the Old English sceabb, with archaizing spelling due to the influence of the Latin scabies, which it here renders (compare Leviticus xiii. 6, Vulgate). Association with the Latin word of similar sound has influenced the later medical use. †1. a. Disease of the skin in which pustules or scales are formed: a general term for skin diseases, but sometimes spec. = itch or scabies (also, dry scab), ringworm or tinea, syphilis; wet scab, eczema. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > scurfy or scabby state or disease scurfc1000 scabc1250 scallc1374 lepraa1398 morphoeaa1398 scalledness1398 morphewa1400 scabiesc1400 scale14.. scruff14.. shellsc1400 rove?c1450 scabnessc1450 scabbedness1483 scaldness1527 scurfinessa1529 scaledness1530 dandruff1545 skalfering1561 bran1574 room1578 reefa1585 scabbiness1584 scald1598 skilfers1599 scabiosity1608 scalliness1610 scaliness1611 furfur1621 morph1681 pityriasis1684 psoriasis1684 porrigo1706 scaly tetter1799 motley dandruff1822 scale-skin1822 parapsoriasis1903 dander- the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > scurfy or scabby state or disease > scale or scab scabc1250 scale14.. scurf1540 incrustation1656 slurf1674 scruff1710 squama1876 squame1911 c1250 Kent. Serm. in Old Eng. Misc. 31 Si lepre [signefieþ] þo sennen, þet scab bi-tokned þo litle sennen. a1366 Romaunt Rose 553 Withoute bleyne scabbe or royne. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) vii. lxii Wete scabbe [L. scabies humida] with quitter and scales. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) vii. lxiii Drye scabbe..somtyme..comeþ of stronge colerike mater oþer melancolike..and þis yuel hatte Impetigo. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11820 Þe scab ouer-gas his bodi all. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 191 Also scabbe, sum is drie & summe is wet. If it be drie, it schal propirli be clepid icche. And if it be moist, it schal be clepid scabbe. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 265/2 Scabbe, roigne. 1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. ii. f. 11^v It healeth scabbes, and vlcers of the skinne. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. iv. i. v. 447 It driues away Leaprosie, Scabbes, cleeres the blood. 1658 F. Osborne Mem. Reigns Elizabeth & James in Wks. (1673) 514 For (spight of his Tarbox) he died of the Scab. 1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 168 I think thou hast got the scab which they call Spanish. a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) 114 They commended Unguents of quick-silver against the scab. 1742 tr. Heister's Gen. Syst. Surg. (1768) I. 279 The Term Tinea at present is applied to a large dry Scab, which Children and Infants are subject to upon the Head. 1757 J. Dyer Fleece i. 19 Th' infectious scab, arising from extremes Of want or surfeit. †b. figurative. Applied to moral or spiritual disease. ΚΠ ?1529 S. Fish Supplicacyon for Beggers sig. A6^v This is the great scabbe why they will not let the newe testament go a brode yn your moder tong. c1555 W. Baldwin & T. Palfreyman Treat. Moral Philos. (new ed.) iv. vii. sig. Ivj It is a scabbe of the world, to be enuious at vertue. 1651 G. Herbert Jacula Prudentum 1137 The itch of disputing is the scab of the Church [transl. of the saying Disputandi prurigo est ecclesiæ scabies]. 1791 J. Wolcot Rights of Kings in Wks. (1812) II. 429 O for an ointment to destroy the scab Call'd Envy. 2. a. A cutaneous disease in animals, esp. sheep, resembling the itch and the mange. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of animals generally > [noun] > skin diseases scabc1386 roinc1400 mangea1425 manginessa1425 scurfc1440 hot spot1967 c1386 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Prol. 30 Of pokkes, and of scabbe,..Shal euery sheepe be hool. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xii This maner of foldyng shall brede no mathes nor skabbe. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 66 When they [i.e. sheep] are closyd in ranke pasturys & batful ground they are sone touchyd wyth the skabe. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 110 That free from Gouts thou may'st preserve thy Care [viz. sheep]: And clear from Scabs . View more context for this quotation 1748 tr. Vegetius Of Distempers Horses 11 Some indeed have attempted to call the Scab the subtercutaneous Distemper. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 554 Swine that have the scab. 1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 101 The sheep in the north are quite well—whilst the scab reappears yearly in the south. b. A disease of cultivated plants, due to vegetable parasites, and causing scab-like roughness. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > caused by insects > associated with crop or food plants > scab scab1742 potato scab1882 corky scab1911 1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman July ii. 27 A second..Crop..commonly fares better, by being not in so much Danger of the Worm, Scab, or Anbury, as the first sown are. 1790 Trans. Soc. Arts 8 39 The Potatoe is also liable to other disorders; in very dry seasons, excrescences will arise, vulgarly called the Scab. 1881 Chicago Times 11 June The wet weather is likely to produce scab in growing wheat. 1908 Daily Chron. 30 Oct. 1/7 The disease of black scab is spreading alarmingly among potatoes. 3. a. The crust which forms over a wound or sore during cicatrization. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound > scab crust1398 roinc1400 scabc1400 scurfc1440 rovea1500 rig-ruff1611 incrustation1656 scud1825 crusta1842 c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 185 Anoynte al his heed..til al þe scabbis þerof be wel tobroke. 1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus Prol. sig. Biij^v They clawe of their owne skabbe. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxx. 110 The skinne being deuided and disvnited with scabbes. 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. P Old fulsome hags with scabs and skurf bedight. 1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 23 Mar. (1948) I. 222 My sore shin itched, and I forgot what it was, and rubbed off the s—b, and blood came. 1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 371 An elevated smooth brown scab remained..upon each of the children's arms, after all discharge from the part had ceased. 1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. ii. 316 Not unfrequently, when the scab seems fully formed, suppuration still goes on beneath and around it. figurative.1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. iii. 97 Con. Here man, I am at thy elbow. Bor. Mas and my elbow itcht, I thought there would a scabbe follow. View more context for this quotationa1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. i. 164 You dissentious rogues..rubbing the poore Itch of your Opinion, Make your selues Scabs . View more context for this quotation1799 S. T. Coleridge Lett. 16 Sept. (1895) 306 Mere cutaneous scabs of loyalty which only ape the king's evil.1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt 72 The great city seemed strangely squalid and mean, a sort of scab that had sprouted at the bosom of ancient and fertile nature. b. transferred in Iron-founding. (See quot. a1884.) ΚΠ 1881 C. Wylie Iron Founding 30 To avoid scabs and a bad casting. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 781/2 Scab, a protuberance on a casting formed by the washing away of the mold~wall. 4. slang. A term of abuse or depreciation applied to persons: a. A mean, low, ‘scurvy’ fellow; a rascal, scoundrel. †occasionally applied to a woman. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > rogue > [noun] harlot?c1225 truantc1290 shreward1297 boyc1300 lidderon13.. cokinc1330 pautenerc1330 bribera1387 bricouna1400 losarda1400 rascal?a1400 custronc1400 knapea1450 sloven?a1475 limmerc1485 knavatec1506 smaik?1507 smy?1507 koken?a1513 swinger1513 Cock Lorel?1518 pedlar's French1530 varletc1540 losthope?c1550 makeshift1554 wild rogue1567 miligant1568 rogue1568 crack-halter1573 rascallion1582 schelm1584 scoundrel1589 scaba1592 bezonian1592 slave1592 rampallion1593 Scanderbeg1601 roly-poly1602 canter1608 cantler1611 gue1612 fraudsman1613 Cathayana1616 crack-hempa1616 foiterer1616 tilt1620 picaro1622 picaroon1629 sheepmanc1640 rapscallion1648 scaramouch1677 fripon1691 trickster1711 shake-bag1794 sinner1809 cad1838 badmash1843 scattermouch1892 jazzbo1914 the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > rogue > [noun] > female scaba1592 rampallion1593 varletess1747 caddess1870 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > baseness or moral vileness > person wretchOE filthOE birdc1300 villain1303 caitiffc1330 crachouna1400 crathona1400 custronc1400 sloven?a1475 smaik?1507 rook?a1513 scavenger1563 scald1575 peasant1581 scaba1592 bezonian1592 slave1592 patchcock1596 muckworm1649 blackguard1732 ramscallion1734 nasty1825 cad1838 boundera1889 three-letter man1929 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > baseness or moral vileness > person > female cow1696 scab1699 jurra1796 caddess1870 a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. A3^v Loue is such a proud scab, that he will neuer meddle with fooles nor children. [1600 [see sense 3a]. a1616 [see sense 3a]. ] 1632 Lyly's Endimion (new ed.) iv. ii, in Sixe Court Comedies sig. E2^v Pages. What are yee (scabs?) Watch. The Watch: This the Constable. 1664 C. Cotton Scarronides 15 A vap'ring Scab, and a great Swearer. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Scab, a sorry Wench, or Scoundril-Fellow. 1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman i. 16 The Royal Branch from Pict-land did succeed, With Troops of Scots and Scabs from North-by-Tweed. 1725 J. Swift Wood the Ironmonger 9 This vap'ring Scab must needs devise To ape the Thunder of the Skies. 1735 Sheridan in Swift's Lett. 5 Oct. The devil take all the D's in Christendom, for a pack of saucy scabs. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 18/1 ‘There's a scurf!’ said one; ‘He's a regular scab,’ cried another. 1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. 71 You're three beastly scabs! b. A workman who refuses to join an organized movement on behalf of his trade; in extended uses: a person who refuses to join a strike or who takes over the work of a striker; a blackleg; a strike-breaker. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > worker according to manner of working > [noun] > striking > refusing to strike dung1765 scab1777 knobstick1794 leg1815 rat1824 nob1825 black1826 blackneb1832 blacknob1838 knob1839 snob1839 blackleg1844 snob-stick1860 non-striker1868 ratter1890 strike-breaker1904 1777 Bonner & Middleton's Bristol Jrnl. 5 July To the Public. Whereas the Master Cordwainers have gloried, that there has been a Demur amongst the Men's and Women's Men;—we have the Pleasure to inform them, that Matters are amicably settled... The Conflict would not been [sic] so sharp had not there been so many dirty Scabs; no Doubt but timely Notice will be taken of them. 1792 in A. Aspinall Early Eng. Trade Unions (1949) 84 What is a scab? He is to his trade what a traitor is to his country... He first sells the journeymen, and is himself afterwards sold in his turn by the masters, till at last he is despised by both and deserted by all. 1806 Trial of Boot & Shoemakers (Federal Soc. Journeymen Cordwainers, U.S.) 74 I concluded at that time I would turn a scab, unknown to them, and I would continue my work and not let them know of it. 1811 Sel. Cases St. New York I. 262 The offending member was then termed a scab and wherever he was employed no others of the society were allowed to work. 1881 Standard 3 Nov. 3/4 Mr. Abbott asked Passfield if he had not told him he heard Hall call Harris a ‘—— scab’. 1889 C. H. Salmons Burlington Strike 259 The man who takes the place of another when that other engages in a struggle with a corporation, is a ‘scab’. 1890 Leeds Mercury 1 July Many of them acted as pickets with the object of preventing any strangers—commonly known as ‘scabs’, or ‘blacklegs’..from entering the works. 1903 W. T. Mills Struggle for Existence xxxv. 493 The ‘scab’ is no longer the unorganized and hungry worker, waiting at the factory gate. 1926 Contemp. Rev. June 687 The trade union world lies shattered and in ruins [after the General Strike]. There is fierce controversy between volunteers, ‘scabs’, ‘hands-uppers’, and ‘bitter-enders’. 1938 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Sept. 3/1 He had instructed pickets not to call non-strikers ‘finks’ or ‘scabs’ or other epithets. 1974 Socialist Worker 26 Oct. 13/2 180 women walked out. But 70 stayed in... The scabs soon found out what it was like to be hated. Compounds C1. a. attributive and in other combinations, as scab-bringing adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [adjective] > of disease: scurfy or scabby > causing scab-bringing1611 scalling1660 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Escarotique,..skab-bringing. b. In sense 4b. ΚΠ 1850 Morning Chron. 11 Feb. 5/6 Having thus given the characteristics and conditions of the ‘legal’, or honourable trade, I next turn my inquiry to the state of the labouring men, women, and children employed by the slop-masters, who are distinguished from the ‘wages’ (or legal) shops by the terms ‘illegal’, ‘scab’, or ‘slaughtershop’ keepers. 1881 Chicago Times 11 June It was decided to stop the purchase of what is termed ‘scab beer’ to-day. 1893 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 27 Sept. Their rules prohibit them to work along with scab switchmen. 1926 Socialist Rev. June 10 The Labour Press..cannot descend to ‘scab’ printing. 1940 M. Lowry Let. 7 May (1967) 31 Two years as a scab lavatory attendant in Saskatchewan. 1958 Spectator 15 Aug. 225/2 British writers, forced to become scab-labour, are undermining it, completely against their wishes. 1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds iii. 60 I suppose some scab contractor undercut me. C2. Categories » scab-mite n. U.S. the itch-mite, Acarus scabiei. † scab-picker n. Obsolete ? one who treats sheep for the scab. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > veterinarian > other veterinary specialists scab-picker1499 beast leech1627 dogleech1638 greasera1642 cow-leech1745 bullock-leech1774 cow-doctor1789 theriogenologist1970 1499 in J. Stuart & G. Burnett Exchequer Rolls Scotl. (1888) XI. 394 That na forestar hald undir him in his steid haggar, flegeour, turnour.., pelar of bark, scab pikar [etc.]. scab weed n. New Zealand a low-growing plant of the genus Raoulia, adapted to poor conditions. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > Australasian > other Australian plants lechenaultia1814 spear-grass1847 Spaniard1851 acroclinium1852 fuchsia1866 scrub vine1866 bayonet grass1868 Scotchman1872 Queensland hemp1876 Spanish soldier1901 bindi-eye1911 scab weed1927 1927 L. Cockayne in R. Speight et al. Nat. Hist. Canterbury 143 Raoulia lutescens... Scabweed. 1933 Discovery Sept. 292/1 The bare land patchily covered by flat ‘scab weed’ looks horribly diseased. 1955 J. K. Baxter Fire & Anvil iii. 78 It survives many droughts..like the scabweed in Central Otago. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scabv. Brit. /skab/, U.S. /skæb/ Etymology: < scab n. †1. transitive. To form a scab or scabs upon. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > scab bescab1611 scab1632 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 376 Great drouth And fiery thirst, that scabbe my lips and mouth. 2. a. intransitive and passive. To become encrusted with a scab or scabs. Also with over. †to scab off: to shed a scab. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (intransitive)] > be injured > be wounded > scab scab1683 the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > process of healing of an injury, etc. > of injury, etc.: heal [verb (intransitive)] > of wound: heal > heal over barka1400 skin1578 cicatrize1582 incarnate1674 scab1683 incarn1689 scar1888 the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (intransitive)] > be injured > be wounded > scab > shed a scab to scab off1683 1683 London Gaz. No. 1864/8 A little Scar upon the Ribs of the fore-side scab'd. 1703 Mead in Philos. Trans. 1702–03 (Royal Soc.) 23 1296 He pointed to a great many little Pustules not yet Scabb'd over. 1726 P. Huxham in Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 394 Those Pustules arose, maturated, and scabb'd off. 1780 Hunter in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 70 133 The sore being allowed to scab, the slough and scab unite and drop off together. 1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxix. 392 Thus forming two separate ulcers, which speedily scabbed. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 813 A slowly spreading infiltration of the skin, which tends to scab over. b. Iron-founding. To form ‘scabs’. ΚΠ 1881 C. Wylie Iron Founding 58 A loam mould run at the top may scab. 3. a. slang (originally U.S.). To behave as a ‘scab’ or ‘blackleg’. Also with it as quasi-obj. and transitive in to scab a job: to perform, or employ another to perform, the job of a striking worker. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > participate in labour relations [verb (intransitive)] > strike > strike-break scab1806 blackleg1882 strike-break1961 1806 Trial of Boot & Shoemakers (Federal Soc. Journeymen Cordwainers, U.S.) 75 Their business was to watch the Jers [sc. journeymen] that they did not scab it. 1889 C. H. Salmons Burlington Strike 357 The men..declared that they had never scabbed a day in their lives. 1895 Rep. on Chicago Strike June–July, 1894 (U.S. Strike Commission) 308 If there is a strike ordered I will be damned if I am going to scab. 1898 Scribner's Mag. Oct. 445/2 I won't scab any man's job. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 30 Sept. 10/2 A surplus army of labour which can be relied upon to ‘scab’ on their neighbours when these rebel against the capitalists. 1907 U. Sinclair in Daily Chron. 11 July 3/1 The starving workmen will scab. 1932 E. Wilson Devil take Hindmost xxi. 223 Several speakers protest..that the companies only want to get them out so that they can scab the job. 1969 Times 30 Oct. 10/7 Frantic calls to friends..summoned..a driver who was prepared to scab as a special favour. 1969 Daily Tel. 16 May 27/7 Peaceful pickets outside all entrances will discourage all students from scabbing on the strike. b. transitive. To treat or label (a person or a firm employing scab labour) as a scab; to ostracize (a person who is a scab). rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > participate in labour relations [verb (transitive)] > summon (workers) to strike > break (strike) > label as strike-breaker scab1806 black1958 1806 Trial of Boot & Shoemakers (Federal Soc. Journeymen Cordwainers, U.S.) 73 They told me if I did not come to the body, I was liable to be scabb'd. 1806 Trial of Boot & Shoemakers (Federal Soc. Journeymen Cordwainers, U.S.) 77 In a little time after this his shop was scabbed. 1888 Montreal Daily Herald 21 Feb. 1/5 Engineers and others who refused to hoist or handle coal during the late effort to ‘scab’ the collieries. 1922 F. B. Young Pilgrim's Rest vi. 409 [The rioting strikers] went away, saying they'd come back again and scab us to-night. 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