Scab

"Scab" in Finnish

hilse

(founding irregularity)

hulttio

(mean, dirty, paltry fellow)

perunarupi

(common scab)

rupi

(incrustation over a wound)

rupi

(group of diseases of potatoes)

rupi

(fungus disease of plants)

kesiä

(to form into scabs and be shed)

kuoria

(to remove part of a surface)

kuoriutua

(to form into scabs and be shed)

pummata

(slang: to beg or bum)

rikkuroida

(to act as a strikebreaker)

rupeutua

(to become covered by a scab or scabs)

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