bab
/bæb/
bab noun: a baby.
Noun (1)
bab (plural babs)
Noun (2)
bab (plural babs)
- A bait for eels, consisting of a bundle of live worms.
- The worms were threaded onto the yarn until we had 4 or 5 feet of big juicy worms threaded through. We would coil it all up and put an old rusty nut at the centre and tie it on a bit of string on an old ash pole — this was the bab.2006 February 1, John Meiklejohn, “Babbing for eels”, in BBC - WW2 People's War
- Synonyms:
- clod
Verb
bab (third-person singular simple present babs, present participle babbing, simple past and past participle babbed)
- To fish for eels using a bab.
- The babbers follow the eels, and you may see fifteen boats as close together as possible, babbing away, and catching as much as four stone-weight of eels per boat of a night.1884, George Christopher Davies, Norfolk Broads and Rivers, W. Blackwood and sons, page 244
- Sometimes we trolled or set liggers for pike, we seldom babbed for eels, it was such a slimy job.1948, William Guy, Mostly Memories: Some Digressions, C. J. Cousland, page 24
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Bab
the Bab
- Alternative form of the Báb.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Bab
Bab
Noun (3) capitalized: BAB
BAB
- Initialism of blame avoidance behavior
- Blame avoidance behavior (BAB) encompasses all kinds of integrity-protecting activities by officeholders in the face of potentially blame-attracting events. It is increasingly common for scholars to scrutinize political decisions and their effects in order to establish whether, and to what degree...2017 November, Markus Hinterleitner, Fritz Sager, “Anticipatory and reactive forms of blame avoidance: of foxes and lions”, in European Political Science Review, volume 9, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN...
- In other words, politicians who feel distrusted may upweight the risks attached to policy failure, whilst politicians who feel mistrusted may upweight the risks attached to being ‘caught out’ in their BAB.2024, James Weinberg, Governing in an Age of Distrust: A Comparative Study of Politicians' Trust Perceptions and Why They Matter, Oxford University Press, →ISBN
Synonyms of bab
Forms of bab
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | babs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | babs |
| present participle | babbing |
| past participle | babbed |
| past | babbed |
Origin of bab
Clipping of babby (“baby”).
Probably related to bob.
Words formed from bab
Phrases with bab
Words that rhyme with bab
Questions about bab
- What does bab mean?
- Bab means a baby.
- What part of speech is bab?
- Bab can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce bab?
- Bab is pronounced /bæb/.
- What is the plural of bab?
- The plural of bab is babs.
Words near bab in the dictionary
Source and license
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