scrob v also scraub, scrawb JOYCE 318 Scrab; scraub; DINNEEN scrábaim, scrabhaim 'scrape, scrawl or tear.' To scratch; to tear the flesh with claws or nails (1955 ENGLISH 36).
1924 ENGLAND 225 Days passed, each crammed with colour. The whitecoats kept getting rustier, 'scrobbin' off de hair' as the time approached for the gun hunt after old fat. 1937 DEVINE 42 If my name's on that petition, you scraub me off. P 148-63 The cat might scrob ya. C 66-8 I'll scrob your eyes out. T 375/6-671 He grabbed me by the coat [and ripped it]. But I grabbed his hand and scrabbed it. 1968 DILLON 152 She scrobbed the face off o' me. 1977 Evening Telegram 17 Sep, p. 18 When we tell those yarns we don't use the word old or some of the women would scrawb the eyes out of you. 1982 The Muse 15 Jan, p. 8 She sat up and scrawbed his chin.
