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gabbed

/ɡæbd/

gabbed is the simple past and past participle of gab.

Meaning of gab

Verb

gab (third-person singular simple present gabs, present participle gabbing, simple past and past participle gabbed)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.
    • He would chant his own doughty deeds, and “gab,” as the Norman word was, in painful earnest, while they gabbed only in sport, and outvied each other in impossible fanfaronades”1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 12, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 181
  2. (intransitive) To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects.
    • "That Mrs. Mender gives a bloke the ear-ache; thinks a bloke's got all day to waste listening to her gab."1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 26
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To speak or tell falsely.

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Words that rhyme with gabbed

Questions about gabbed

What is gabbed the simple past and past participle of?
Gabbed is the simple past and past participle of gab.
How do you pronounce gabbed?
Gabbed is pronounced /ɡæbd/.

Words near gabbed in the dictionary

  1. gabbards
  2. gabbart
  3. gabbarts
  4. gabbas
  5. Gabbatha
  6. gabbed
  7. gabber
  8. gabberflasted
  9. gabberhouse
  10. gabbers
  11. Gabbert

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