scab
noun · verbA1Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
- 2.
(colloquial, countable, obsolete, uncountable)(colloquial or obsolete) The scabies.
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)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).
- 5.
(countable, uncountable)Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
- 6.
(countable, uncountable)(phytopathology) Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
- 7.
(countable, uncountable)(founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
- 8.
(countable, uncountable)A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
Đồng nghĩa: antimodel, bad guy, baddie, bastard, beggar, blackguard, bounder, cad, coistril, evildoer, fustilarian, harlot, heavy, knave, lidderon, makeshift, miscreant, ne'er-do-well, niding, nithing, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scab, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, scum, scumbag, thug, undesirable, varlet, villain
- 9.
(countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable)A worker who acts against trade union policies; any picket crosser (strikebreaker), and especially one with devotion to union busting.
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.
Đồng nghĩa: blackleg, blacklegger, knobstick, scalie
Động từ
verb- 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.
(Australia, New Zealand, UK, informal, transitive)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.
Từ liên quan
Đồng nghĩa
Cùng gốc / liên quan
Từ có viền nét liền là đã có mục từ; viền nét đứt là chưa có trong dữ liệu.
Nguồn gốc từ
From Middle English scabb, scabbe (also as shabbe, schabbe > 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). shab. Cognate with Schabe, skab, skabb, scabies. Related also to scafan, scabere, shabby.