quab
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kwɒb/
- Rhymes: -ɒb
Etymology 1
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Noun
quab (plural quabs)
- An unfledged bird.
- (by extension) Something immature or unfinished.
- 1628, John Ford, The Lover's Melancholy:
- You’ll take it well enough; a scholar's fancy,
A quab; ’tis nothing else, a very quab
Verb
quab (third-person singular simple present quabs, present participle quabbing, simple past and past participle quabbed)
- Alternative form of quob
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “quab”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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