scrob

scrob (third-person singular simple present scrobs, present participle scrobbing, simple past and past participle scrobbed)

1. (dialect) To scratch.
   • 1996, Kevin Corrigan Kearns, Dublin Pub Life and Lore: An Oral History, page 216:

     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.

   • 2014, Joseph O'Connor, The Thrill of It All, page 265:

     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 […]

• scrobu

Probably from Latin scrobis. Cf. also Romanian scorbură.

scrob m

1. resting place, den, lair

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic скробъ (skrobŭ).

scrob n (plural scroburi)

1. fried eggs