The difference between Scab and Scalie
When used as nouns, scab means an incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing, whereas scalie means a strikebreaker.
Scab is also verb with the meaning: to become covered by a scab or scabs.
check bellow for the other definitions of Scab and Scalie
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Scab as a noun:
An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
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Scab as a noun (colloquial, or, obsolete):
The scabies.
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Scab as a noun:
The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
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Scab as a noun:
Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).
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Scab as a noun:
Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by .
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Scab as a noun (plant disease):
Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
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Scab as a noun (founding):
A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
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Scab as a noun:
A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
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Scab as a noun (offensive, slang):
A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker.
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Scab as a verb (intransitive):
To become covered by a scab or scabs.
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Scab as a verb (intransitive):
To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
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Scab as a verb (transitive):
To remove part of a surface (from).
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Scab as a verb (intransitive):
To act as a strikebreaker.
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Scab as a verb (transitive, UK, Australia, NZ, informal):
To beg (for), to cadge or bum.
Examples:
"I scabbed some money off a friend."
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Scalie as a noun (North America, dated, derogatory, slang):
A strikebreaker.
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Scalie as a noun (Australia, slang):
A weighbridge worker.
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Scalie as a noun (US, informal):
A scaled quail (Callipepla squamata).
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Scalie as a noun (furry fandom):
A reptile or reptile-like animal character with human characteristics.
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Scalie as a noun (furry fandom):
Someone who roleplays or describes themselves as being such a character.