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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)

  1. Idle chatter.
  2. The mouth or gob.
  3. 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)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.
  2. (intransitive) To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To speak or tell falsely.

Translations

Anagrams

  • ABG, AGB, BGA, GBA, bag

Amanab

Noun

gab

  1. a large dove

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse gap, verbal noun to gapa (to gape).

Noun

gab n (singular definite gabet, plural indefinite gab)

  1. mouth, jaws
  2. yawn
  3. gap

Inflection


German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?a?p/
  • Rhymes: -a?p

Verb

gab

  1. 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)

  1. 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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gub

English

Noun

gub (plural gubs)

  1. (Scotland slang) Mouth.
    • 1994, "The acid House", Irvine Welsh, in Eurotrash:
      "...fucked-up Yank who's too screwed up to lift a forkful of scran into her gub?"

Synonyms

  • (mouth): gob

Verb

gub (third-person singular simple present gubs, present participle gubbing, simple past and past participle gubbed)

  1. (slang) To defeat.
    We just got gubbed 5-1.

Anagrams

  • Bug, bug

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?up/

Verb

gub

  1. second-person singular imperative of gubi?

Somali

Verb

gub

  1. to burn

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