shab

See also: sħab

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃæb/
• Rhymes: -æb

Etymology 1

From Middle English shabbe, schabbe, from Old English sċeabb, from Proto-West Germanic *skabb, from Proto-Germanic *skabbaz. Doublet of scab.

Noun

shab (countable and uncountable, plural shabs)

1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) Scabies.
2. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A scab.

Verb

shab (third-person singular simple present shabs, present participle shabbing, simple past and past participle shabbed)

1. (obsolete) To scratch; to rub.
   • 1698, George Farquhar, Love and a Bottle:

     I have shabbed him off purely

Etymology 2

See scab.

Verb

shab (third-person singular simple present shabs, present participle shabbing, simple past and past participle shabbed)

1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) To play mean tricks; to act shabbily.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “shab”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• AHBs, Bahs, Bash, HABs, HBAs, Habs, bahs, bash, habs