different between shab vs shaw

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English shabbe, schabbe, from Old English s?eabb, from Proto-West Germanic *skabb, from Proto-Germanic *skabbaz. See scab.

Noun

shab (countable and uncountable, plural shabs)

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) Scabies.
2. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A scab.

Verb

shab (third-person singular simple present shabs, present participle shabbing, simple past and past participle shabbed)

1. (obsolete) To scratch; to rub.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Farquhar to this entry?)

Etymology 2

See scab.

Verb

shab (third-person singular simple present shabs, present participle shabbing, simple past and past participle shabbed)

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To play mean tricks; to act shabbily.

Anagrams

• AHBs, Bahs, Bash, HABs, HBAs, Habs, bahs, bash, habs

English

Alternative forms

• shawe (13th-17th centuries)

Etymology

From Old English s?eaga, scaga. Cognate with Old Norse skógr (“forest, wood”), whence Danish skov (“forest”). Doublet of scaw.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???/

Noun

shaw (plural shaws)

1. (dated, dialectal) A thicket; a small wood or grove.
   • 1936, Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems, V, lines 1-2

     The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws, / And grasses in the mead renew their birth,

2. (Scotland) The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon, 2006 (A Scots Quair), p.35:

     Up here the hills were brave with the beauty and the heat of it, but the hayfield was still all a crackling dryness and in the potato park beyond the biggings the shaws drooped red and rusty already.

Translations

Anagrams

• -wash, Haws, WASH, Wahs, Wash, Wash., haws, shwa, wahs, wash

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English schewen, schawen, scheawen, from Old English sc?awian, from Proto-Germanic *skaww?n?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh?-.

Noun

shaw (plural shaws)

1. A show.

Verb

shaw (third-person singular present shaws, present participle shawin, past shawt, past participle shawt)

1. To show.