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shab

  • /ʃæb/

Rhymes with -æb

Where it comes from

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

noun shabs

  1. UK, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable Scabies.
  2. UK, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable A scab.

verb shabs · shabbing · shabbed

  1. obsolete To scratch; to rub. I have shabbed him off purely
  2. UK, dialectal, obsolete To move (something, away or out of the way), to drive off. Certain Nipnets intended to have sheltred themselves under Vncas; but he perceiving it would be distastful to the English, soon shab'd them off.
  3. UK, slang To skulk or sneak away. […] and so the fat Parson shabb'd off,[…]

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@misc{shab_2026,
  title = {shab},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shab},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}