abishag
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Hebrew אבישג (“Avishag”, literally “Father of error” or “the Father wanders”), from אבי (avi, “father of; my father”) and שגג (shagag, “to go astray; to err; to sin”).
Noun[edit]
abishag (plural abishags)
- (archaic, thieves' cant) The illegitimate child of an unmarried woman and a married man.
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References[edit]
- Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “abishag”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volumes I (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 5.
- Eric Partridge (1949) A Dictionary of the Underworld, London: Macmillan Co.