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hab or nab

hab or nab adverb: win or lose; however things turn out, in any case.

Adverb

hab or nab

  1. (obsolete) Win or lose; however things turn out, in any case.
    • But hab or nab [translating à toutes adventures] we can never take too much advantage of it., II.6

Origin of hab or nab

Probably representing a present subjunctive and a negative form of have. Compare Old English hæbbe, næbbe, and the negative particle ne.

Questions about hab or nab

What does hab or nab mean?
Hab or nab means win or lose; however things turn out, in any case.
What part of speech is hab or nab?
Hab or nab is an adverb.

Words near hab or nab in the dictionary

  1. Haast's eagle
  2. Haast's eagles
  3. haat
  4. haats
  5. hab
  6. hab or nab
  7. hab.
  8. hab. corp.
  9. Habab
  10. habability
  11. Hababs

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