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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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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)
- (Africa) A village council meeting.
- 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.
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter III:
- Talk intended to deceive. [from 19th c.]
- Fuss.
- What a palaver!
- 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
- 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling
- (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)
- (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?”
- (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)
- palaver
Inflection
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