gab

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[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Noun

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Singular
gab

Plural
gabs

gab (plural gabs)

  1. idle chatter
  2. mouth as gob

[edit] Usage notes

Gab in the sense "mouth as gob" was used to specifically describe the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing early steam engines.

[edit] Translations

Idle chatter

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[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to gab

Third person singular
gabs

Simple past
gabbed

Past participle
gabbed

Present participle
gabbing

to gab (third-person singular simple present gabs, present participle gabbing, simple past and past participle gabbed)

  1. to talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects

[edit] Translations

to talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects

[edit] Anagrams

[edit] Amanab

[edit] Noun

gab

  1. a large dove

[edit] Danish

[edit] Etymology

From Old Norse gap, verbal noun to gapa (“‘to gape’”).

[edit] Noun

gab n. (singular definite gabet, plural indefinite gab)

  1. mouth, jaws
  2. yawn
  3. gap

[edit] Inflection

    Inflection of “gab”
neuter gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative gab gabet gab gabene
genitive gabs gabets gabs gabenes

[edit] German

[edit] Verb

gab

  1. first-person singular indicative past form of geben
  2. third-person singular indicative past form of geben
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