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Is scab a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word scab is a Scrabble US word. The word scab is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

S1C3A1B3

Is scab a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word scab is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

S1C3A1B3

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Yes. The word scab is a Words With Friends word. The word scab is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

S1C4A1B4

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4-letter words (3 found)

BACS,CABS,SCAB,

3-letter words (6 found)

ABS,BAC,BAS,CAB,SAB,SAC,

2-letter words (3 found)

AB,AS,BA,

You can make 12 words from scab according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of scab

scab csab sacb ascb casb acsb scba csba sbca bsca cbsa bcsa sabc asbc sbac bsac absc basc cabs acbs cbas bcas abcs bacs

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Definitions and meaning of scab

scab

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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skæb/
  • Rhymes: -æb

Noun

scab (countable and uncountable, 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.
  4. (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).
    Coordinate term: blight
  5. Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
  6. (phytopathology) Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, 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.
    Coordinate term: (material left around the edge of a moulded part) flash
  8. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:villain
  10. (derogatory, slang) A worker who acts against trade union policies; any picket crosser (strikebreaker), and especially one with devotion to union busting.
    • c. 1910s, London, Jack (attributed), The Scab:
      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.
    Synonyms: blackleg, knobstick, scalie

Derived terms

Related terms

  • scabies
  • scabrous

Translations

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To become covered by a scab or scabs.
  2. (intransitive) To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
    • 1734, Royal Society of London, The Philosophical Transactions (1719 - 1733) Abridged, Volume 7, page 631,
      Thoſe Puſtules aroſe, maturated, and ſcabbed off, intirely like the true Pox.
  3. (transitive) To remove part of a surface (from).
  4. (intransitive) To act as a strikebreaker.
  5. (transitive, UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) To beg (for), to cadge or bum.
    I scabbed some money off a friend.
    • 2004, Niven Govinden, We are the New Romantics, Bloomsbury Publishing, UK, page 143,
      Finding a spot in a covered seating area that was more bus shelter than tourist-friendly, I unravelled a mother of a joint I′d scabbed off the garçon.
    • 2006, Linda Jaivin, The Infernal Optimist, 2010, HarperCollins Australia, unnumbered page,
      I′d already used up me mobile credit. I was using a normal phone card, what I got from Hamid, what got it from a church lady what helped the refugees. I didn′t like scabbing from the asylums, but they did get a lotta phone cards.

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Anagrams

  • ABC's, ABCS, ABCs, B. A. Sc., B.A.Sc., BACS, BACs, BASc, CABs, CASB, CBSA, Cabs, SABC, SCBA, bacs, cabs

Source: wiktionary.org