quab

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwɒb/

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• Rhymes: -ɒb

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Variant of squab?”)

Noun

quab (plural quabs)

1. An unfledged bird; squab, or (by extension, obsolete) Something immature or unfinished.
   • 1628, John Ford, The Lover's Melancholy:

     You’ll take it well enough; a scholar's fancy,
     A quab; ’tis nothing else, a very quab

Etymology 2

Verb

quab (third-person singular simple present quabs, present participle quabbing, simple past and past participle quabbed)

1. Alternative form of quob.

References

• “quab”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.