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scab

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

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#1·Apr 27, 2026UK

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

Origin: From , scabbe (also as shabbe, schabbe > ), from and , both from , from . . Cognate with , , , . Related also to , ,. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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  • “I still live here and think the day can’t come too soon when this pustulant scab of a nation is peeled off this beautiful continent and thrown into the fire.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Its actually really interesting. My Dad was from South Yorkshire and the first thing I remember him teaching me is not to be a scab 🤣”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Anyone from the Valleys voting for Reform is a scab and needs to be picked off.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “I'm unable to do anything about this wound I wonder if it would turn into a scab”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “DO that heroin you've been craving. Pick at that scab you've been letting heal. YOLO!”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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#2·Apr 27, 2026UK

The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.

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  • “was tryna pry this scab off my shoulder Not looking and it made a paper ripping sound when it detached istg”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Worse part is this is now “the industry“ they have taught their “A.I. Fungineers” that they should be proud of being an artist who can’t draw. Being paid to be a scab can make a board feel like they are the ship of Theseus.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “boy gets a scab on the tip of his ear and I'm petting him and it just...comes off now everyone thinks he was a stray TwT”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Liverpool aren’t really worth talking about anymore, for me. It’s like picking a particularly nasty scab.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Absolutely tired of the same B.S.- by an unfit -Con Felon useless senile incoherent old-fart! - please anyone-someone - please get rid of this 'scab' rotting inside our American Democraxy.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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#3·Apr 27, 2026UK

(colloquial, or, obsolete) The scabies.

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