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Traditional English :: scabbiness
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scabbiness - n. & v. --n. 1 a dry rough crust formed over a cut, sore, etc. in healing.
2 (often attrib.) colloq. derog. a person who refuses to strike or join a trade union, or who tries to break a strike by working; a blackleg.
3 the mange or a similar skin disease esp. in animals.
4 a fungous plant-disease causing scablike roughness.
5 a dislikeable person. --v.intr. (scabbed, scabbing)
1 act as a scab.
2 (of a wound etc.) form a scab; heal over. scabbed adj. scabby adj. (scabbier, scabbiest). scabbiness n. scablike adj. [ME f. ON skabbr (unrecorded), corresp. to OE sceabb] |
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