gabois

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Old French[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From or from the same source as the verb gaber.

Noun[edit]

gabois oblique singular, m (oblique plural gabois, nominative singular gabois, nominative plural gabois)

  1. jest; joking
    • c. 1177, Chrétien de Troyes, Le Chevalier de la Charrette, page 50 (of the Livres de Poche Lettres gothiques edition, →ISBN, line 98:
      Je n'ai or mestier de gabois
      I don't have the job of joking

References[edit]

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (gabois)
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