Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger. · To thrust in a stabbing motion. · To recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed) object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at). · To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object to hurt or kill someone. · A wound made by stabbing. · Pain inflicted on a person's feelings. · An attempt.
First attested in Scottish English (compare Scots stob, stobbe, stabb (“a pointed stick or stake; a thrust with a pointed weapon”)), from Middle English stabbe (“a stab”), probably a variant of Middle English stob, stub, stubbe (“pointed stick, stake, thorn, stub, stump”), from Old Norse stobbi, stubbi, cognate with Old English stybb. Cognate with Middle Dutch stobbe. Supposed by some to derive from Scottish Gaelic stob (“to prick, to prod, to push, to thrust”); supposed by others to be from a Scots word.
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