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gab

/ɡæb/ symbol

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ISO 639-3 language code for Gabri.

noun

Idle chatter.
The mouth or gob.
One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines.

verb

To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.
To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects.
To speak or tell falsely.

Origin

Inherited from Middle English gab, gabbe, from Old Norse gabb (“jest, mockery”) (whence also Old French gab, gap (“mockery, derision, scorn”)). Cognate with Icelandic gabb (“hoax”).

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