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Grind.

scab (on a wound)

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Meaning & usage

noun/ɡʁɪnt/

  1. scab (on a wound)

    masculine · regional · strong

  2. various kinds of scab-like skin diseases or conditions, such as scabies, scurf, dandruff

    masculine · regional · strong

  3. head

    Switzerland · informal · masculine · strong

  4. animal head

    masculine · strong
Where this word comes from

From Middle High German grint, from Old High German grint, from Proto-West Germanic *grind, from Proto-Germanic *grindą (“grounds, ground material”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrendʰ- (“to crush”). Cognate with West Frisian grint (“gravel”), Dutch grind (“gravel; shingle”), obsolete Dutch grinden (“to grind, rub, crush”). More at English grind. The sense for head developed metonymically as a clipping of Kopfgrind.

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