Gab

Definition: Gab

Gab

Noun

1. Light informal conversation for social occasions.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "gab" was first used: sometime around 1150. (references)

Literature

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Gab

Loquacity

Fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue; flow of words;flux de bouche, flux de mots; copia verborum, cacoethes loquendi; furor loquendi; verbosity; (diffuseness); gift of the gab; (eloquence).

Speech

Oratory; elocution, eloquence; rhetoric, declamation; grandiloquence, multiloquence; burst of eloquence; facundity; flow of words, command of words, command of language; copia verborum; power of speech, gift of the gab; usus loquendi.

Be eloquent; adj; have a tongue in one's head, have the gift of the gab; n.

Crosswords: Gab

German (gave), Scottish (a tattling mouth, nm. tattling mouth).

I detect, like me, you're endowed with the gift of gab. (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen)

Gift of Gab (1934)

Den es zweimal gab Bas-Boris Bode - Der Junge (1985)

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Books

• August Macke : er gab der Farbe den hellsten Klang : 24 Gemälde (reference)

• Der Mann, der Hitler die Ideen gab : die sektiererischen Grundlagen des Nationalsozialismus (reference)

• Die Geschichtsbücher des Alten Testaments : gab es ein deuteronomistisches Geschichtswerk? (reference)

• Ein Mann der Marx Ideen gab : Wilhelm Schulz, Weggefährte Georg Büchners, Demokrat der Paulskirche : eine politische Biographie (reference)

• Gift of Gab (Wild Thornberrys Chapter Book, 4) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Canta Lo Romantico De Juan Gab (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Mad Gab Party Game (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Von dem mislungenen kommunistenputsch in Wien: blutiger zusammenstos der Kommunisten mit der polizei am Schottentor-Votivpark-Währingerstrase, wobei es 17 tote und 100 verwundete gab. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "gab": blow the gab ♦ Eccentric gab ♦ Gift of gab ♦ gift of the gab ♦ have gift of the gab ♦ have the gift of the gab ♦ hook or gab ♦ line of gab. Additional references.

Albanian

gojos (backbite, gossip, slander, speak ill of smb.), muhabet kot (guff, idle talk), llomotis (blab, cackle, clack, jabber, prate, splutter, waffle), llogje (jaw), llafe (blah, claptrap, comment, hassle, jaw, scuttlebutt, taradiddle, tattle, tittle tattle, waffle), dërdëllit (babble, chatter, clack, gibber, harp on, jabber, prattle, yap), dërdëllis (babble, chatter, clack, gibber, harp on, harp on the same string, jabber, prattle, yap). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ثرثرة (babble, blab, blabber, boastfulness, breeze, cackle, chat, chatter, clatter, gabble, garrulity, gas, gibberish, jabber, jactitation, logorrhea, loquacity, patter, prate, prattle, rattle, talkativeness, tattler, tittle tattle, twaddle, yap). (various references)

Bulgarian 

кука (clevis, crook, grapple, holdfast, hook), вилка (bracket, fork), бърборя (babble, cank, jabber, natter, prate, prattle, rattle, tattle), бърборене (chatter, prate, prattle, rattle, tattle), бъбривост (garrulity, loquacity, mouth, volubility), дърдоря (cackle, dodder, gabble, jabber, jaw, palaver, patter, prate, tattle), дърдорене (babble, burble, cackle, gabble, jaw, patter, sputter, yap), дрънкане (blab, chink, clink, jangle, plunk, rattle, tattle, thrum, tinkle), дрънкам (blab, cank, chin, chink, cosher, jangle, jingle, plunk, prate, rattle, tinkle, twaddle). (various references)

Chinese 

凹节. (various references)

Czech

tlachání (cackle, gas, palaver, talk, twaddle, waffle), žvanìní (cackle, chatter, chitchat, claptrap, double talk, flapdoodle, flubdub, gas, piffle, prate, prattle, rigmarole, tattle, twaddle, waffle, wind). (various references)

Farsi 

پرگفتن , گپ زدن (Chat), دروغ گفتن (Belie, Equivocate, Prevaricate, Weasel, Whiff). (various references)

French

manques. (various references)

German

quatschen (blather, chatter, gabble, jaw, natter, piffle, squeal, yap). (various references)

Greek 

πολυλογία (chatter, garrulousness, loquacity, prattle, talkativeness, twaddle, verbalism, verbalization, verbiage, verboseness, verbosity), φλυαρώ (babble, blabber, chatter, gabble, gibber, gossip, jabber, palaver, prate, rattle away, tattle, tittle tattle, twaddle, waffle, yammer, yap, yatter), φλυαρία (babble, babblement, cackle, chatter, chin wagging, chit chat, claptrap, gabble, garrulity, garrulousness, loquacity, palaver, prate, prattle, prittle prattle, rattle, tittle tattle, yapp). (various references)

Hungarian

fecsegés (babble, blab, blat, blatter, cackle, chaffering, chat, chatter, clack, clash, driveling, drivelling, gabble, gossiping, jabber, jangle, lip, loquacity, palaver, piffle, prattle, small talk, talk, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle), fecseg (blab, blah blah, chat, chatter, dote, jabber, jangle, Maunder, natter, piffle, prate, talk, to babble, to blab, to blab out, to blat, to blatter, to cackle, to clack, to clatter, to gabble, to jabber, to jangle, to palaver, to patter, to piffle, to prattle, to quack, to rabbit, to ramble, to rant, to talk frivolities, to twaddle, to vapour, to witter, to yak, to yak it up). (various references)

Indonesian

secolek (a pinch, bit, pat), buaian (boast, hammock, swing), bercakap-cakap (babble, gabble), banyak cakap. (various references)

Italian

parlantina (talkativeness), chiachiarare, chiacchiera (babble, gossip, natter, tattle, waffle). (various references)

Manx

cabberaght (garrulity, jaw, prattle, wagging tongue). (various references)

Norwegian

skravle (chat, chatter, gossip, jaw). (various references)

Pig Latin

abgay.(various references)

Portuguese

tagarelice (blab, blather, blether, chat, chatter, chirp chirrup, chitchat, gabble, gossiping, jaw, patter, prate, tittle-tattle), tagarelar (blather, blether, cackle, chat, chatter, chipper, clack, clat, clatter, dodder, gabble, gas, gossip, jabber, jaw, keckle, patter, prate, talk, tattle, tittle-tattle), palratório, palrar (cackle, chat, chirp, gabble, gaggle, jabber, jaw, prate, talk, tattle, tittle-tattle), mexericar (gossip, intrigue, scandalize, snoop, tattle, tittle-tattle), loquacidade (gabble, jabber), falar pelos cotovelos (waffle), entalhe (cannelure, chase, croze, cutting, dent, fillister, furrow, groove, hack, indentation, indention, jag, jagg, kerf, mortise, nick, rabbet, snick), conversa (causerie, chat, chitchat, consultation, conversation, converse, discourse, gabble, reasoning, slipslop, talk, trifling). (various references)

Romanian

gurã (aperture, armful, Buss, chops, entrance, gossip, influx, issue, jaw, kisser, lip, lips, mouth, mouthful, muzzle, orifice, pestering, plug, row, scolding, sip, speech, spout, squabble, vent), vorbire (discourse, language, oration, speaking, speech, talk), trãncãni (Bab, babble, cackle, clack, clash, clatter, cosher, gibber, gossip, jabber, jangle, Maunder, natter, palaver, prate, prattle, rattle, talk, tattle, yap), muzicuţã (harmonica, mouth organ), limbuţie (chattering, garrulousness, loquacity, verbosity), leoarbã (potato trap), clanţã (catch, latch). (various references)

Russian 

крюк (crook, grapnel, grapple, grappling iron, hook, piton, rocking-turn), вынос, выемка (cannelure, coulisse, cutting, groove, gutter, indent, indentation, notch, notching, recess, roach, ward), вылет (flight, radius), отверстие (aperture, breach, break, ear, gap, hiatus, hole, opening, orifice, slot, vent, ventiduct), зарубка (dap, hack, kerf, notch, notching, snick), болтовня (badinage, banter, blether, cackle, chat, chatter, chitchat, clatter, confabulation, footle, gammon, gas, gassing, gossip, gup, hubble bubble, jive, mag, patter, piffle, rattle, spiels, tattle, tittle tattle, twaddle, waffle, wish-wash), болтать болтовня (twaddle, yakking), болтать (blab, cank, chat, chatter, chin, confabulate, cosher, haver, jabber, natter, prate, prattle, rattle, shoot the breeze, tattle, twitter, witter), болтливость (garrulity, jaw, loquacity). (various references)

Scottish

cab (a gap, indentation, mouth). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

brbljanje (babblement, blabber, blather, gibber, jive, prattle, twaddle), blebetati (palter, waffle). (various references)

Spanish

gancho (claw, clinch, crotcheteer, hook, jab, peg, pothook, tout), parlotear (babble, cackle, chatter, gabble, gas, natter, prate, prattle, tattle, waffle, yap), palique (small talk), horquilla (fork, hairpin, oarlock, pin, rest, yoke), hablar (chat, communicate, speak, speaking, talk, tap, to speak, visit), cotorrear (gabble, gabble away, quack), charlar (chat, chatter, chin, gas, gossip, jaw, natter, prate, prattle, shoot the bull, talk, visit, yap), charla (babble, causerie, chat, chatter, chitchat, clack, derision, gabble, gossip, natter, prate, rattle, small talk, talk, tattle, tittletattle, yap), cháchara (babble, babbling, chatter, chitchat, jaw, prattle, talk, yak). (various references)

Swedish

prat (buzz, cackle, chatter, gas, palaver, talk, talking, wind). (various references)

Thai

พู�"เรื่องไร้สาระ, การพู�"เรื่องไร้สาระ. (various references)

Turkish

gevezelik (babbling, cackle, chattering, chinwag, chitchat, clack, comment, gabble, garrulity, gossip, indiscretion, jaw, jive, loquaciousness, loquacity, mouthiness, prate, prattle, rattle, talkativeness, talky-talk, tattle, volubility, windiness, yap), zırvalamak (blah blah, flap, rot, talk nonsense, twaddle), saçmalamak (blah blah, blather, blether, drivel, drool, flap, gas, piffle, rave, rot, talk nonsense, talk through one's hat, talk wild, twaddle, waffle, yap), saçmalık (absurdity, applesauce, balderdash, bilge, blather, blatherskite, blether, bosh, drivel, extravagance, eyewash, farce, fatuity, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, galimatias, gassing, gibberish, guff, hog-wash, hokum, hooey, inanity, ineptitude, ineptness, insanity, irrationality, lark, malarkey, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, shenanigan, silliness, spinach, stuff, talkee-talkee, the irrational, trash, triviality, twaddle, vacuity, whimsicality, whimsicalness, wind, wishy-wash), konuşkanlık (expansiveness, loquaciousness, loquacity, talkativeness, volubility), boş lâf (applesauce, babble, balderdash, bosh, bunkum, comment, empty words, falderal, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, flimflam, flubdub, flummery, froth, fudge, galimatias, garbage, gas, guff, haver, hokum, hooey, hot air, inanity, jazz, lark, moonshine, palaver, poppycock, punk, routine, small talk, talky-talk, tripe, vaporings, vapourings, waffle, wind, wishy-wash), boş konuşmak (gammon, haver, jaw, prate, talk the hind legs off a donkey, trifle), çok konuşmak (rattle), çene yapmak, çene (chap, chin, chinwag, chitchat, chop, eloquence, glass jaw, jaw, jawbone, jowl, mandible). (various references)

Turkmen 

gygyrmak (chatter), jedirdemek (jabber). (various references)

Ukrainian

хвастати (beat to drums, blow, bluster, boast, brag, cut a dash, display, flourish, gasconade, glory, splurge, swank, talk big, talk horse, vapor, vapour, vaunt), говіркість, виліт (sortie), вилка, базікати (babble, blab, blather, burble, cackle, chatter, chin, clatter, expatiate, footle, gabble, gossip, haver, jabber, natter, parleyvoo, piffle, prate, spiel, tattle, tittle tattle, twitter, waffle, wag, wiggle-waggle, yak, yak-yak, yarn), балакучість (garrulity, loquacity, volubility). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vết khía (snick), vết chích (prick), t� i bẻm mép câm m�"m đi! im đi!. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "gab": gabardine, gabardines, gabbard, gabbards, gabbart, gabbarts, gabbed, gabber, gabbers, gabbier, gabbiest, gabbing, gabble, gabbled, gabbler, gabblers, gabbles, gabbling, gabbro, gabbroic, gabbroid, gabbros, gabby, gabelle, gabelled, gabelles, gaberdine, gaberdines, gabfest, gabfests, gabies, gabion, gabions, gable, gabled, gables, gabling, gaboon, gaboons, gabs, gaby. (additional references)

Words ending with "gab": bafflegab. (additional references)

Words containing "gab": bafflegabs, bugaboo, bugaboos, delegable, fatigabilities, fatigability, fatigable, gigabit, gigabits, gigabyte, gigabytes, hangable, huggable, immitigable, immitigably, indefatigabilities, indefatigability, indefatigable, indefatigableness, indefatigablenesses, indefatigably, irrefragabilities, irrefragability, irrefragable, irrefragably, jigaboo, jigaboos, litigable, mangabey, mangabeys, mangabies, mangaby, megabar, megabars, megabit, megabits, megabuck, megabucks, megabyte, megabytes, navigabilities, navigability, navigable, navigably, propagable, singable, slugabed, slugabeds, vagabond, vagabondage, vagabondages. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Gab" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agj, agv, eab, egab, Egba, gaab, gaav, gabba, gabe, gabo, gac, gaf, gah, gai, gaj, gak, Galby, gamb, gaq, gav, gaw, gax, gaz, Gba, gdb, Geba, gebr, geeb, gelb, gev, gfa, ghb, gibb, giby, gimb, glab, Glaby, gma, gnab, gta, gub, gwa, Gxa, gyb, Iab, Igfbp, Kgabo, Ogba, vab, yab, zab. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bag.

-1 letter: ab, ag, ba.

+1 letter: bags, bang, brag, gabs, gaby, gamb, garb, grab.

+2 letters: badge, bagel, baggy, bangs, barge, began, begat, belga, bhang, bogan, brags, gabby, gable, gamba, gambe, gambs, garbs, gleba, goban, grabs.

+3 letters: abying, airbag, ambage, baaing, badged, badger, badges, bagass, bagels, bagful, bagged, bagger, baggie, bagman, bagmen, bagnio, baguet, bagwig, baking, baling, bandog, banged, banger, bangle, baning, barege, barged, bargee, barges, baring, barong, basing, bating, baying, beagle, beflag, begall, begaze, beggar, beglad, belgas, beluga, bhangs, bigamy, biogas, bodega, bogans, borage, braggy, bregma, brogan, bugsha, cubage, dagoba, gabbed, gabber, gabble, gabbro, gabies, gabion, gabled, gables, gaboon, gambas, gambes, gambia, gambir, gambit, gamble, gambol, garbed, garble, gasbag, gazabo, gazebo, gimbal, glebae, global, gobang, gobans, grabby, graben, hagbut, ragbag, ratbag, sagbut, seabag.