scab
An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
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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.
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 🤣
Anyone from the Valleys voting for Reform is a scab and needs to be picked off.
I'm unable to do anything about this wound I wonder if it would turn into a scab
DO that heroin you've been craving. Pick at that scab you've been letting heal. YOLO!
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An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
“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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The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
“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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(colloquial, or, obsolete) The scabies.
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