Definition of "shab" in English

noun

1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) Scabies.

2. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A scab.

verb

1. (obsolete) To scratch; to rub.

verb

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

2. (obsolete, UK, dialect) 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.
   • They shab'd […] Thomas aff to hell.

3. (obsolete outside historical fiction, UK, criminal slang) To skulk or sneak away.