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

  1. Scab as a noun:

    An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.

  2. Scab as a noun (colloquial, or, obsolete):

    The scabies.

  3. Scab as a noun:

    The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.

  4. 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).

  5. Scab as a noun:

    Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by .

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Scab as a noun:

    A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.

  9. Scab as a noun (offensive, slang):

    A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker.

  1. Scab as a verb (intransitive):

    To become covered by a scab or scabs.

  2. Scab as a verb (intransitive):

    To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.

  3. Scab as a verb (transitive):

    To remove part of a surface (from).

  4. Scab as a verb (intransitive):

    To act as a strikebreaker.

  5. Scab as a verb (transitive, UK, Australia, NZ, informal):

    To beg (for), to cadge or bum.

    Examples:

    "I scabbed some money off a friend."

  1. Scalie as a noun (North America, dated, derogatory, slang):

    A strikebreaker.

  2. Scalie as a noun (Australia, slang):

    A weighbridge worker.

  3. Scalie as a noun (US, informal):

    A scaled quail (Callipepla squamata).

  4. Scalie as a noun (furry fandom):

    A reptile or reptile-like animal character with human characteristics.

  5. Scalie as a noun (furry fandom):

    Someone who roleplays or describes themselves as being such a character.