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nabs slang.|næbz|
Also 9 knabs.
[Of obscure origin: cf. nibs.]
A term used with possessive pronouns as a slang or jocular designation of a person; my nabs = ‘my gentleman’, † myself. Also as pl.
a1790Potter New Dict. Cant, Nabs. a person of either sex. 1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., His-nabs, him, or himself, Mynabs, me, myself. 1823in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. 248 Sought out the road where Toley's turnpike lay, And came upon his nabs just as he rose. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour III. 149 (Hoppe), Your nabs sparkle my nabs a drop of bevare. 1895Emerson Birds, etc. 203, I do a bit of stuffing, and as sure as I get gutting a bird, in come my nabs and steal some. |