单词 | gabbit |
释义 | gabbitadj. Scottish. 1. As the second element in parasynthetic compounds: having a mouth of the specified kind; esp. having the specified way of speaking, as ill-gabbit, smooth-gabbit, sly-gabbit, etc. Cf. mouthed adj. 1a.Recorded earliest in gash-gabbit ‘loquacious’: see etymology section at gash-gabbit adj.glib-gabbit, thrawn-gabbit, etc.: see the first element. See also nice-gabbit adj. ΚΠ 1706 in Sc. Antiquary (1898) 12 99 Ye mannee look for sic well-buked Language, as the Gashgabbed Pamphlet-men set aff their Tales wee. ?1719 A. Ramsay in A. Ramsay & W. Hamilton Familiar Epist. ii. 14 Thrawn-gabet Sumphs that snarl At our frank Lines. 1822 J. Hogg Three Perils of Man I. v. 108 Ye slee-gabbit limb o' the auld ane. 1827 J. Baillie Let. 23 Jan. (1999) I. ii. 141 There will be jibing & jeering..& smooth-gabbet speering O' questions. 1868 W. Shelley Flowers by Wayside 181 Some gleg-gabbit slidderie lier. 1932 Scotsman 5 Jan. 11/4 (heading) Hedgehogs snout-gabbit. 1990 J. A. Begg in J. A. Begg & J. Reid Dipper & Three Wee Deils 121 Ill-gabbit folk aye mak me seik. 2011 Queenie concerned Scotl. may be leaving UK in scot.politic (Usenet newsgroup) 8 June Nae ower dainty gabbit, but. 2. Talkative, loquacious; (also) impudent or insolent in speech. Now rare. Sc. National Dict. (at Gab) records this sense as still in use in Kirkcudbrightshire and Roxburghshire in 1953. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adjective] wordyeOE talewisec1200 i-worded?c1225 babblinga1250 cacklinga1250 chatteringa1250 speakfula1250 word-wooda1250 of many wordsc1350 janglingc1374 tatteringc1380 tongueya1382 ganglinga1398 readya1400 jargaunt1412 talkative1432 open-moutheda1470 clattering1477 trattling?a1513 windy1513 popping1528 smatteringa1529 rattle?1529 communicablea1533 blab1552 gaggling1553 long-tongued?1553 prittle-prattle1556 pattering1558 talking1560 bobling1566 gabbling1566 verbal1572 piet1573 twattling1573 flibber gibber1575 babblative1576 tickle-tongued1577 tattling1581 buzzing1587 long-winded1589 multiloquous1591 discoursive1599 rattling1600 glib1602 flippant1605 talkful1605 nimble-tongued1608 tongue-ripe1610 fliperous1611 garrulous?1611 futile1612 overspeaking1612 feather-tongueda1618 tongue-free1617 long-breatheda1628 well-breathed1635 multiloquious1640 untongue-tied1640 unretentive1650 communicative1651 linguacious1651 glibbed1654 largiloquent1656 multiloquent1656 parlagea1657 loose-clacked1661 nimble-chop1662 twit-twat1665 over-talkativea1667 loquacious1667 loudmouth1668 conversable1673 gash1681 narrative1681 chappy1693 apposite1701 conversative1703 gabbit1710 lubricous1715 gabby?1719 ventose1721 taleful1726 chatty?1741 blethering1759 renable1781 fetch-fire1784 conversational1799 conversant1803 gashing1808 long-lunged1815 talky1815 multi-loquacious1819 prolegomenous1822 talky-talky1831 nimble-mouthed1836 slipper1842 speechful1842 gassy1843 in great force1849 yattering1859 babbly1860 irreticent1864 chattable1867 lubrical1867 chattery1869 loose-mouthed1872 chinny1883 tongue-wagging1885 yappy1909 big-mouthed1914 loose-lipped1919 ear-bashing1945 ear-bending1946 yackety-yacking1953 nattering1959 yacking1959 woofy1960 1710 T. Ruddiman in G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneis (new ed.) Gloss. Gabbed, that hath a great volubility of the tongue. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Gabbed A gabbit chit, a child that has much chat. 1816 Montrose Courier 19 Jan. 4 That gabbet chiel, ycleped Macniel, Did wantonly abuse thee. 1873 T. Watson Homely Pearls at Random Strung 36 Even gabbit Johnnie Howie had not a word to say. 1928 A. Horsbøl tr. J. Jakobsen Etymol. Dict. Norn Lang. in Shetland I. 207/1 Gabet, talkative; tattling; a gabet body. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1706 |
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