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scrab.

To scrape or scratch.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/skɹæb/
  1. To scrape or scratch.

    transitive
Where this word comes from

From 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.

noun/skɹæb/
  1. A crabapple.

Where this word comes from

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

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