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Vinony

shab

noun

  1. cutaneous disease in sheep
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ʃæb/

noun

Etymology: From Middle English shabbe, schabbe, from Old English sċeabb, from Proto-West Germanic *skabb, from Proto-Germanic *skabbaz. Doublet of scab.

  1. Scabies.
  2. A scab.

verb

Etymology: See scab.

  1. To move (something, away or out of the way), to drive off.

    “Certain Nipnets intended to have sheltred themselves under Vncas; but he perceiving it would be distastful to the English, soon shab'd them off.”

    “I have shabb'd him off purely.”

  2. To skulk or sneak away.

    “[…] and so the fat Parson shabb'd off,[…]”

    “We bided a moment as the push we were part of moved forward and took the opportunity to slip deftly back through it, thus shabbing off from our prey.”