“scabbed” is a form of
scab
/skæb/ noun, verb
Forms scabs scabbing scabbed
- noun An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
- noun (colloquial or obsolete) The scabies.
- noun The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
- noun (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).
- noun Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
- noun (phytopathology) Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
- noun (founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
- noun A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
- verb (intransitive) To become covered by a scab or scabs.
- verb (intransitive) To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
- verb (transitive) To remove part of a surface (from).
- verb (intransitive) To act as a strikebreaker.
- verb (transitive, UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) To beg (for), to cadge or bum. “I scabbed some money off a friend.”
Synonyms
antimodel bad guy baddie bastard beggar blackguard bounder cad cockatrice coistril evildoer fustilarian harlot heavy knave lidderon makeshift miscreant ne'er-do-well niding strikebreaker blackleg rat fink
Etymology
From Middle English scabb, scabbe (also as shabbe, schabbe > English 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”). Doublet of shab. Cognate with German Schabe (“scabies”), Danish skab (“scab, scabies”), Swedish skabb (“scab, scabies”), Latin scabies (“scab, itch, mange”). Related also to Old English scafan (“to scrape, shave”), Latin scabere (“to scratch”), English shabby.
Webster’s 1913
- noun An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.
- noun The itch in man; also, the scurvy. [Colloq. or Obs.]
- verb To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.
Etymology [OE. scab, scabbe, shabbe; cf. AS. scæb, sceabb, scebb, Dan. & Sw. skab, and also L. scabies, tr. scabere to scratch, akin to E. shave. See Shave, and cf. Shab, Shabby.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “scab”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details