Gab Definition
găb
gabbed, gabbing, gabs
verb
gabbed, gabbing, gabs
To talk much or idly; chatter; gabble.
Webster's New World
To talk idly or incessantly, as about trivial matters.
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noun
gabs
Idle talk; chatter.
Webster's New World
One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines.
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idiom
gift of (the) gab
- the ability to speak fluently or glibly
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Gab
Noun
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gabsIdioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Gab
Origin of Gab
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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”).
From Wiktionary
Middle English gabben to scoff, speak foolishly from Old Norse gabba to scoff
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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