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 *gabbaną (“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
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
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Verb
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- (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
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)
Inflection
German
Pronunciation
Verb
gab
- (deprecated template usage) First-person singular preterite of geben.
- (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular preterite of geben.
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
gab oblique singular, m (oblique plural gas, nominative singular gas, nominative plural gab)
- joke
- circa 1177, Chrétien de Troyes, Le Chevalier de la Charrette, page 50 (of the Livres de Poche Lettres gothiques edition, →ISBN, line 96:
- Est ce a certes ou a gas?
- Is this certain or in jest?
Related terms
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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