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单词 hab
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habv.

Etymology: See hab adv.
Obsolete.
In hab or nab, have or not have.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > have or not have [verb]
hab or nab1546
1546 in State Papers Henry VIII (1852) XI. 106 Bernardo sayth the Frenchmen will cum roundely to worke to us at ones, and that we shall habb or nab shortly.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

habadv.n.

/hab/
Etymology: Known in the phrases hab nab , hab or nab , from c1550. Conjectured to represent some part of have v., presumably the present subjunctive, Old English hæbbe, early southern Middle English habbe, in collocation with the corresponding negative form Old English næbbe, Middle English nabbe; the alternative phrase habbe he (ich, we, etc.), nabbe he (ich, we, etc.) = ‘have he (we, etc.) or have he (etc.) not’, accounts fairly for the sense, and answers phonologically; but there is a long gap in the history, between the general disappearance of the habbe forms of the verb in Middle English and the first examples of hab nab. hab ȝe = have ye, if ye have, occurs in Sir Ferumbras c1380; (h)ab is still a form of have in modern Devonshire and west Somerset dialect (where also the phrase hab or nab is in everyday use), but is exemplified by Elworthy only in (h)ab-m, for have'en = ‘have him’, where it may be a modern phonetic change, since the dialectal change of vn to bm is widely spread, in eb'm even, seb'm seven, and the like.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
1. In the phrases hab or nab, hab nab ( habs-nabs), get or lose, hit or miss, succeed or fail; however it may turn out, anyhow; at a venture, at random.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adverb] > randomly or haphazardly
into uncertain1382
uncertainlya1387
at adventure (also adventures)c1390
at or on six and sevena1398
auntersa1450
at all adventure (also adventures)1485
by hab or by nab1530
at rovers (rarely rover)c1531
hab or nab1542
hitty-missy1553
rovingly1583
haphazard1600
random1619
unsight, unseena1627
happy-be-lucky1633
cross and pile1648
temerariously1669
happy-go-lucky1672
à tort et à travers1749
randomly1765
chance-medley1822
haphazardly1832
willy-nilly1908
by guess and by God (or Godfrey)1931
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > [adverb] > randomly
wildlyc1369
random1619
hab nab1664
randomly1765
anyhow1828
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes (1877) 209 Put to the plounge of..habbe or nhabbe to wynne all, or to lese all.
1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 77/2 in R. Holinshed Chron. I The Citizens..shot habbe or nabbe at random vppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell.
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 68 Philautus determined, hab, nab, to send his letters.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. vi. 216 But hab or nab [Fr. à toutes adventures] we can never take too much advantage of it.
1639 J. Ford Ladies Triall ii. sig. D2v Better stil Habs-nabs good wincke and choose, if one must have her, The other goes without her.
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 202 Cyphers, Astrall Characters..set down Hab-nab, at random.
1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 350 Such..Sayings are a Discredit to your self..As for Instance,..Hab nab, at a venture.
1831 W. Scott Jrnl. 23 Mar. (1946) 154 It is all Hab Nab at a venture.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) ‘Then you 'ont take no less?’ ‘No, I 'ont, not one varden. ‘Then I'll ab-m, hab or nab!’
2. quasi-n. In at (by) hab or nab = 1; by hab or by nab, by habs and nabs: see quots.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adverb] > randomly or haphazardly
into uncertain1382
uncertainlya1387
at adventure (also adventures)c1390
at or on six and sevena1398
auntersa1450
at all adventure (also adventures)1485
by hab or by nab1530
at rovers (rarely rover)c1531
hab or nab1542
hitty-missy1553
rovingly1583
haphazard1600
random1619
unsight, unseena1627
happy-be-lucky1633
cross and pile1648
temerariously1669
happy-go-lucky1672
à tort et à travers1749
randomly1765
chance-medley1822
haphazardly1832
willy-nilly1908
by guess and by God (or Godfrey)1931
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 833 By habbe or by nabbe, par une voye ou aultre.
?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Three Bks. Eng. Hist. (1844) 93 While thone sought by happ or nap to subdue thother.
a1612 J. Harington Epigrams (1618) iv. 91 Jack Straw, with his rebellious crew, That set King, Realme, and Lawes at hab or nab.
a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Spanish Gipsie (1653) iii. sig. E3v Take heed for I speake not by habs and by nabs.
1685 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 138 Who said you have drawn up an Impeachment against President Moore at hab nab.
1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Habs-an-nabs: Anything done in odd moments or at intervals of leisure, not continuously, is said to be done by habs-an-nabs.
1892 M. C. F. Morris Yorks. Folk-talk 41 It is only by stealth as it were, and that ‘by habs and nabs’, as we say, that a stranger, can learn much of the true folk-talk.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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