Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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noun
Scabies.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
A scab.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
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verb
To scratch; to rub.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
To move (something, away or out of the way), to drive off.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, obsolete
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verb
To skulk or sneak away.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, slang
Qualifier: obsolete outside historical fiction
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History
From Middle English shabbe, schabbe, from Old English sċeabb, from Proto-West Germanic *skabb, from Proto-Germanic *skabbaz. Doublet of scab.
See scab.
