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Definition: Jabbing |
JabbingNoun1. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow); "he warned me with a jab with his finger"; "he made a thrusting motion with his fist". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "jabbing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references) |
Synonyms: JabbingSynonyms: jab (n), poke (n), poking (n), thrust (n), thrusting (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Jabbing |
| English words defined with "jabbing": poke check. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | A jabbing right hook? (Sports Night; writing credit: Tom Brady; Kevin Falls) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Jabbing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 94.64% of the time. "Jabbing" is used about 56 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 94.64% | 53 | 46,657 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.36% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 56 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "jabbing": finger-jabbing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "jabbing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Arabic | لكز (poke), وخز (jab, pang, prickle, sting, thrusting, tickling, twinge), ضرب (batter, battery, beat, beat off, belabour, biff, buffet, chastise, connect, curry, description, drub, drubbing, fib, flap, flapping, form, galvanize, genre, go getter, grain, hit, hitting, impact, kidney, kind, lace, lace into smb., lam, larrup, let out, lock out, manner, multiplication, multiply, order, overtake, paddle, paste, pasting, patter, poke, pommel, pound, pummel, slash, slosh, sock, sort, stamp, strike, stripe, tan, tanning, thrash, thrashing, thresh, variety, wallop, whip). (various references) | ||||
French | piqûre (jab, jag), coup (jab). (various references) | ||||
German | stechend (biting, penetrating, penetratingly, penetrative, piercing, piercingly, pricking, prickly, pungent, sharp, stinging, twinging). (various references) | ||||
Hebrew | תחיב" (insertion, jab, sticking in, thrust). (various references) | ||||
Manx | broddagh (stab wound). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | abbingjay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Jabbing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abbing, Cabbing, Jabang, jabbings, Jabirn, jabon, Jabuni, Kabingu. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "jabbing" (pronounced ja"bing) |
| 4 | -a" b i ng | dabbing, gabbing, grabbing, nabbing, stabbing, tabbing. |
| 3 | -b i ng | absorbing, bobbing, bribing, clubbing, curbing, describing, disturbing, drubbing, dubbing, ebbing, hobbing, hobnobbing, lobbing, prescribing, probing, ribbing, robbing, rubbing, scrubbing, snubbing, sobbing, subbing, subscribing, throbbing, transcribing, tubing, webbing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-g-i-j-n" | |
-3 letters: agin, bang, bani, gain, jibb. | |
-4 letters: ain, ani, bag, ban, bib, big, bin, gab, gan, gib, gin, jab, jag, jib, jig, jin, nab, nag, nib. | |
-5 letters: ab, ag, ai, an, ba, bi, in, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-b-g-i-j-n" | |
+2 letters: jabbering. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4A 61 62 62 69 6E 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--- .- -... -... .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01100001 01100010 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J a b b i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 0061 0062 0062 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)44676868758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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