Scab

Quick meaning: Scab is a noun meaning An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (colloquial or obsolete) The scabies.
2. The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
3. Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
4. (founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
5. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
6. (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).
7. (phytopathology) Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.

Example Sentences

I would make thee the / loathsomest scab in Greece.

Scab was the terror of the sheep farmer, and the peril of his calling.

The bark that wasn′t already scabbed off was peppered with beetle holes.

Trev walked over and leaned down, dropping a tender kiss on her forehead where the skin was raw and scabbing from the cut.

Word Forms

• scabs
• scabbing
• scabbed

Synonyms for scab

Depending on context, synonyms include antimodel, baddie, bastard, beggar, blackguard, bounder.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cicatrize, blackleg, rat, strikebreaker, eschar, ringworm.

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