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Meaning of scrob | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

To scratch.

dialectal

Examples

“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.”
“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 […]”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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