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Definition of Gabbing
1. gab [v] - See also: gab
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gabbing
Literary usage of Gabbing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lost Beauties of the English Language: An Appeal to Authors, Poets by Charles Mackay (1874)
"Gabbe' and 'gabbing,' appear in the late Herbert Cole- ridge'a 'Dictionary of
the Oldest Words in the English Language.' In Gaelic, according to ..."
2. The Student, and Intellectual Observer (1869)
"This proceeding was called gabbing, and the boasts and jests were called gabs.
The word is preserved in our Anglo-Saxon under the forms—gabban,- to joke or ..."
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