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Nature's receipt that your skin filed a claim and already fixed it.
means A crust of dried blood and tissue that forms over a wound to protect it while new skin grows underneath; also, slang for a worker who crosses a picket line.
from Scab goes back to Old English 'sceabb' and Old Norse 'skabb', both meaning a skin disease or rough crust — ultimately from a Germanic root tied to scratching and scraping, the same family that gives us 'shave'. The leap to its nastier modern meaning — a strikebreaker — happened in the 1700s, when union workers borrowed the word as an insult: someone who was a diseased, lowly blemish on the body of labor, taking work that wasn't rightfully theirs.
- made of
- dried fibrin, platelets, and trapped dead cells
- picking penalty
- resets healing, raises scar odds significantly
- labor meaning
- strikebreaker, coined insult from 1700s England
- itch cause
- nerve signals firing as skin regrows beneath