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scrobs

scrobs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scrob.

Meaning of scrob

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

Questions about scrobs

What is scrobs the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Scrobs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scrob.

Words near scrobs in the dictionary

  1. scrobiculately
  2. scrobiculi
  3. scrobiculus
  4. scrobitulation
  5. scrobitulations
  6. scrobs
  7. scrod
  8. scroddle
  9. scroddled
  10. scroddles
  11. scroddleware

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scrobs (page history and authors); scrob (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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