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quabbed

quabbed is the simple past and past participle of quab.

Meaning of quab

Noun

quab (plural quabs)

  1. An unfledged bird; squab, or (by extension, obsolete) Something immature or unfinished.
    • You’ll take it well enough; a scholar's fancy,
      A quab; ’tis nothing else, a very quab1628, John Ford, The Lover's Melancholy

Questions about quabbed

What is quabbed the simple past and past participle of?
Quabbed is the simple past and past participle of quab.

Words near quabbed in the dictionary

  1. quaaltaghs
  2. quaalude
  3. quaaludes
  4. Quaama
  5. quab
  6. quabbed
  7. Quabbin
  8. quabbing
  9. quabla operator
  10. Quaboag
  11. quabs

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