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Gab   /gæb/   Listen
verb
Gab  v. i.  
1.
To deceive; to lie. (Obs.)
2.
To talk idly; to prate; to chatter.


noun
Gab  n.  (Steam Engine) The hook on the end of an eccentric rod opposite the strap.


Gab  n.  The mouth; hence, idle prate; chatter; unmeaning talk; loquaciousness. (Colloq.)
Gift of gab, facility of expression. (Colloq.)





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"Gab" Quotes from Famous Books



... batalla campal! Oh! (Prestando atencin, como si oyese algn ruido, y mirando otra vez muy sobresaltado hacia la puerta del foro.) No, nada. Se me ha colgado de los faldones del gabn..., de la corbata, que si tira algo ...
— Ms vale maa que fuerza • Manuel Tamayo y Baus
... gentleman of a supercargo. He is just like any mortal: he has taken a drink of their Lethe up there, and forgotten to come back to us. He'll be wrestling with the lads, or playing on his lyre, or giving his precious gift of the gab a good airing; or he's off after plunder, the rascal, for what I know: 'tis all in the day's work with him. He is getting too independent: he ought to remember that he belongs to us, one half ...
— Works, V1 • Lucian of Samosata
... William Follett had at all points the mastery over Dr. Buckland. "What do you say, Mr. Stephenson?" asked Sir Robert, laughing. "Why," said he, "I will only say this, that of all the powers above and under the earth, there seems to me to be no power so great as the gift of the gab." {350} ...
— Lives of the Engineers - The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson • Samuel Smiles
... a disappointment. Yes; a great disappointment. Harry would have made a debater. Yes; yes; a nimble wit, an engaging manner, and the gift of the gab. And the father would have had ...
— The Hill - A Romance of Friendship • Horace Annesley Vachell
... have enough trouble with our telephone even with Carrie to supply discretion for the whole town. Party lines and rubber ears are the source of all our woe. You know what a party line is, of course. It's a line on which you can have a party and gab merrily back and forth for forty minutes, while some other subscriber is wildly dancing with impatience. Most of our lines have four subscribers apiece, and it's just as hard to live in friendliness on a party ...
— Homeburg Memories • George Helgesen Fitch


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