scrab

Meanings

Verb

Noun

Origin

  • 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.
  • From Middle English scrabbe, variant of crabbe; ultimately of Germanic origin, plausibly from North Germanic, cognate with Swedish dialect scrabba, krabbäpple.

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