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scrob

scrob verb: to scratch.

Verb

scrob (third-person singular simple present scrobs, present participle scrobbing, simple past and past participle scrobbed)

  1. (dialectal) To scratch.
    • And another expression somebody'd say was, 'She scrobbed the face off her.' I think that's an old English word, 'scrob', to scratch. And it would tear the skin down. And ferocious language. And they could hold the bitterness.1996, Kevin Corrigan Kearns, Dublin Pub Life and Lore: An Oral History, page 216
    • In Dallas, he scrobbed so hard at his face that he appeared to tear the skin, rivulets of blood raising screams of joy from the billies […]2014, Joseph O'Connor, The Thrill of It All, page 265

Forms of scrob

third-person singular presentscrobs
present participlescrobbing
past participlescrobbed
pastscrobbed

Questions about scrob

What does scrob mean?
Scrob means to scratch.
What part of speech is scrob?
Scrob is a verb.
What is the past tense of scrob?
The past tense of scrob is scrobbed.

Words near scrob in the dictionary

  1. scroaching
  2. scroag
  3. scroags
  4. scroat
  5. scroats
  6. scrob
  7. scrobal
  8. scrobbed
  9. scrobbing
  10. scrobble
  11. scrobbled

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