scrab

• IPA^(key): /skɹæb/
• Rhymes: -æb

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

scrab (third-person singular simple present scrabs, present participle scrabbing, simple past and past participle scrabbed)

1. (transitive) To scrape or scratch.

• scrabbed eggs
• scrabber

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

scrab (plural scrabs)

1. A crabapple.

• carbs, cbars, crabs