Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryIdle chatter. · The mouth or gob. · One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines.
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *gabbōnąder. Old Norse gabbder. Middle English gab English gab 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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