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gab
English
Etymology
From Middle English gabben, from Old English gabban (“to scoff, mock, delude, jest”) and Old Norse gabba (“to mock, make sport of”); both from Proto-Germanic *gabb?n? (“to mock, jest”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghabh- (“to be split, be forked, gape”). Cognate with Scots gab (“to mock, prate”), North Frisian gabben (“to jest, sport”), Middle Dutch gabben (“to mock”), Middle Low German gabben (“to jest, have fun”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æb/
- Rhymes: -æb
Noun
gab (countable and uncountable, plural gabs)
- Idle chatter.
- The mouth or gob.
- One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:talkative
Derived terms
- bafflegab
- begab
- gabby
- gift of the gab
Translations
Verb
gab (third-person singular simple present gabs, present participle gabbing, simple past and past participle gabbed)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.
- (intransitive) To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects.
- (transitive, obsolete) To speak or tell falsely.
Translations
Anagrams
- ABG, AGB, BGA, GBA, bag
Amanab
Noun
gab
- a large dove
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse gap, verbal noun to gapa (“to gape”).
Noun
gab n (singular definite gabet, plural indefinite gab)
- mouth, jaws
- yawn
- gap
Inflection
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?p/
- Rhymes: -a?p
Verb
gab
- first/third-person singular preterite of geben
Old French
Alternative forms
- gaab
- gap
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Norse gabb.
Noun
gab m (oblique plural gas, nominative singular gas, nominative plural gab)
- joke
Related terms
- gaber
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (gab)
- gab on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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gaby
English
Alternative forms
- gabey
Etymology
Origin uncertain.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??e?bi/
- Rhymes: -e?bi
Noun
gaby (plural gabies)
- (Britain, regional) A stupid, foolish person; a simpleton; a dunce.
- Synonyms: guffin, nincompoop, fool
- 1860, William Makepeace Thackeray, Lovel the Widower, chapter 1:
- I daresay I made a gaby of myself to the world
- 1902, John Kendrick Bangs, Olympian Nights, ch. 10:
- "[Y]ou're a jobbernowl and a doodle, a maundering mooncalf and a blockheaded numps, a gaby and a loon; you're a Hatter!" I shrieked the last epithet.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 2:
- "You pair of gabeys!" she exclaimed. "You'll see him before the night's out."
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ab?/
Etymology 1
Conjunction
gaby
- if
- Synonyms: -li, gaž, joli
Etymology 2
Univerbation of gaž (“if”) +? by (“would”)
Verb
gaby (defective, invariable)
- if… would
Further reading
- gaby in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
- gaby in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.
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