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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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palaver

English

Etymology

Originally nautical slang, from Portuguese palavra (word), from Late Latin parabola (parable, speech). The term's use (especially in Africa) mimics the evolution of the word moot. As such, for sense development, see moot. Doublet of parable, parole, and parabola.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /p??l??.v?(?)/
  • Rhymes: -??v?(r)

Noun

palaver (countable and uncountable, plural palavers)

  1. (Africa) A village council meeting.
  2. Talk, especially unnecessary talk; chatter. [from 18th c.]
    • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter III:
      Frances pulled his hair heartily, and then went and seated herself on her husband’s knee, and there they were, like two babies, kissing and talking nonsense by the hour—foolish palaver that we should be ashamed of.
    • 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima.
      These remarks were received with a differing demonstration: some of the company declaring that if the Dutchman cared to come round and smoke a pipe they would be glad to see him—perhaps he'd show where the thumbscrews had been put on; others being strongly of the opinion that they didn't want any more advice—they had already had advice enough to turn a donkey's stomach. What they wanted was to put forth their might without any more palaver; to do something, or for some one; to go out somewhere and smash something, on the spot—why not?—that very night.
    • 1899, Stephen Crane, Active Service:
      Knowing full well the right time and the wrong time for a palaver of regret and disavowal, this battalion struggled in the desperation of despair.
    • 1985, Justin Richards, Option Lock, p 229:
      Not for the first time, he reflected that it was not so much the speeches that strained the nerves as the palaver that went with them.
  3. Talk intended to deceive. [from 19th c.]
  4. Fuss.
    What a palaver!
  5. A meeting at which there is much talk; a debate; a moot.
    • 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling
      this country and epoch of parliaments and eloquent palavers
  6. (informal) Disagreement.
    I have no palaver with him.

Synonyms

  • (unnecessary talk): hot air, janglery; See also Thesaurus:chatter
  • (fuss): ado, bother; See also Thesaurus:commotion

Descendants

  • ? Danish: palaver
  • ? Finnish: palaveri
  • ? German: Palaver
  • ? Hungarian: paláver

Translations

Verb

palaver (third-person singular simple present palavers, present participle palavering, simple past and past participle palavered)

  1. (intransitive) To discuss with much talk.
    Synonyms: jabber, rabbit, yak; see also Thesaurus:prattle
    • 1860, Atlantic Monthly, vol. 5, no. 30 (April),
      “That,” he rejoined, “is a way we Americans have. We cannot stop to palaver. What would become of our manifest destiny?”
  2. (transitive) To flatter.

References

  • James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Palaver”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VII (O–P), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 390, column 1.

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English palaver.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /palav?r/, [p?a?l?w??], [p?a?læ?w?]

Noun

palaver c (singular definite palaveren, plural indefinite palavere)

  1. palaver

Inflection

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