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scrab¹

  • /skɹæb/

Rhymes with -æb

Where it comes from

From Middle French and Old French schrabben (“to scrape, scratch”), from Frankish *skaban, from Proto-Germanic *skabaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ- (“to scratch”); compare Old High German skaban, Irish scríobann and sgrìoban.

verb scrabs · scrabbing · scrabbed

  1. transitive To scrape or scratch.

scrab²

  • /skɹæb/

Rhymes with -æb

Where it comes from

From Middle English scrabbe, variant of crabbe (“crabapple”); ultimately of Germanic origin, plausibly from North Germanic, cognate with Swedish dialect scrabba, krabbäpple.

noun scrabs

  1. A crabapple.

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@misc{scrab_2026,
  title = {scrab},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/scrab},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}