scab

scab

  1. rupi

  2. rikkuri

Esimerkkejä:

Unsurprisingly, London is something of an icon to organized labor, and what London wrote nearly 90 years ago in the February 1904 Atlantic Monthly about 'scabs' and why unions oppose them is extraordinarily candid and highly relevant to the current situation faced by all unionized U.S. manufacturers who compete in the world market. (reason.com, 1993)

They voted for Bill Clinton because he promised to reform health care and ban the use of 'scabs'. (peoplesworld.org)

Synonyymisanakirja

scab

kiinteä kudos, rupi, työntekijä, rikkuri, lakonrikkoja, rotta, rupeutua, arpeutua, parantua.

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Englannin sanakirja

scab (englanti > suomi)

  1. rupi

  2. perunarupi

  3. hilse

  4. hulttio

  5. arpeutua

  6. rikkuroida

  7. pummata

scab englanniksi

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

  2. puhekieltä The scabies.

  3. The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.

  4. 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 306,

  5. Scab was the terror of the sheep farmer, and the peril of his calling.
  6. 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).

  7. common scab|Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by (taxlink).

  8. puhekieltä Any one of various more or less destructive fungus fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.

  9. puhekieltä A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.

  10. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.

  11. {{quote-book

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

  13. c. 1910s, (w) (attributed), The Scab:

  14. When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out.
  15. puhekieltä To become covered by a scab or scabs.

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

  17. 1734, Royal Society of London, The Philosophical Transactions (1719 - 1733) Abridged, Volume 7, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=4VAVAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA531&lpg=RA1-PA531&dq=%22scabbed scabbing+off|from%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=rfp867GOSb&sig=PIQ7DioGdAzIkZqDxVX1yugqphE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=veYwUKuvGOeWiQfvx4HQBA&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22scabbed|scabbing%20off|from%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 631,

  18. Thoſe Puſtules aroſe, maturated, and ſcabbed off, intirely like the true Pox.
  19. 2009, Linda Wisdom, Wicked By Any Other Name, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=t3LaNotymNcC&pg=PA233&lpg=PA233&dq=%22scabbed scabbing+off|from%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=363tQEyJiY&sig=xsQzufUSn-dejMLE2GtTaKbDT8E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=veYwUKuvGOeWiQfvx4HQBA&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22scabbed|scabbing%20off|from%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 233,

  20. Trev walked over and leaned down, dropping a tender kiss on her forehead where the skin was raw and scabbing from the cut.
  21. 2009, Nancy Lord, Rock, Water, Wild: An Alaskan Life, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=8XNzra78RK0C&pg=PA121&lpg=PA121&dq=%22scabbed scabbing+off|from%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=RfmMsAy-NZ&sig=02cu2I_SWxphcHeJYyvEDIwnI9A&hl=en&sa=X&ei=veYwUKuvGOeWiQfvx4HQBA&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22scabbed|scabbing%20off|from%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 121,

  22. The bark that wasn′t already scabbed off was peppered with beetle holes.
  23. puhekieltä To remove part of a surface (from).

  24. 1891, Canadian Senate, Select Committee on Railways, Telegraphs and Harbours: Proceedings and Evidence, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=jvdKAAAAYAAJ&q=%22scabbed scabbing+off|from%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22scabbed|scabbing+off|from%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=ZiLLfPOkSK&sig=UqFsGERWd7pAacNUNno4KXVaw0I&hl=en&sa=X&ei=veYwUKuvGOeWiQfvx4HQBA&redir_esc=y page 265,

  25. The beds shall be scabbed off to give a solid bearing, no pinning shall be admitted between the backing and the face stones and there shall be a good square joint not exceeding one inch in width, and the face stone shall be scabbed off to allow this.
  26. puhekieltä To act as a strikebreaker.

  27. 1903, April 5, (w), The Scab:

  28. Nobody desires to scab, to give most for least. The ambition of every individual is quite the opposite, to give least for most; and, as a result, living in a tooth-and-nail society, battle royal is waged by the ambitious individuals.
  29. puhekieltä To beg (for), to cadge or bum.

  30. I scabbed some money off a friend.

  31. 2004, Niven Govinden, We are the New Romantics, Bloomsbury Publishing, UK, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=z5mHTP7A7AIC&pg=PA143&lpg=PA143&dq=%22scabbed scabbing+off|from%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=qlA-afCBV7&sig=lXUliS1VwJnx_G_anuGODOuqv0E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=veYwUKuvGOeWiQfvx4HQBA&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22scabbed|scabbing%20off|from%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 143,

  32. Finding a spot in a covered seating area that was more bus shelter than tourist-friendly, I unravelled a mother of a joint I′d scabbed off the garçon.
  33. 2006, Linda Jaivin, The Infernal Optimist, 2010, HarperCollins Australia, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=A8jwqGZ6fB0C&pg=PT213&lpg=PT213&dq=%22scabbed scabbing+off|from%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=a7BbqYTa_w&sig=1rsWuT5FlKRIoDemvOiF5rIwnok&hl=en&sa=X&ei=veYwUKuvGOeWiQfvx4HQBA&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22scabbed|scabbing%20off|from%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false unnumbered page,

  34. I′d already used up me mobile credit. I was using a normal phone card, what I got from Hamid, what got it from a church lady what helped the refugees. I didn′t like scabbing from the asylums, but they did get a lotta phone cards.
  35. 2010, Fiona Wood, Six Impossible Things, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VQBxOok4aiUC&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113&dq=%22scabbed scabbing+off|from%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=f4mKq4B7Jy&sig=uiRyvNUwGXtHIb5NuSN_WjS9wJU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=veYwUKuvGOeWiQfvx4HQBA&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22scabbed|scabbing%20off|from%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 113,

  36. I′ve told Fred we can see a movie this weekend, but that just seems like a money-wasting activity. And I can′t keep scabbing off my best friend.

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