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单词 to steek one's gab
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to steek (also †dight) one's gab
to steek (also †dight) one's gab and variants: to shut one's mouth; to be silent.Compare to hold (also stow, †stash) one's gab at gab n.3 Phrases 3.
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1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd v. iii. 86 Archbald learn to steek Your Gab a wee, and think before ye speak.
1787 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 215 Now R******** harangue nae mair, But steek your gab for ever.
1820 W. Scott Abbot I. xiv. 305 Now, my mates..once again dight your gabs and be hushed.
1839 W. McDowall Poems 87 And wi' her prayers her secrets blab, Withouten dread; 'Twere better she had steek'd her gab, Wi' steel an' thread.
1849 Graham's Amer. Monthly Mag. Mar. 203/1Dight your gab,’ interrupted Sooterkins.
1861 J. Barr Poems & Songs 132 Noo steek your gab, ye've said eneugh.
1991 D. Kinloch in Anarchy of Light: Neil Gunn 30 Steek the gab! Hawk-study this parched tongue, this braille tongue furry with the things and places it is pointing to.
2000 J. Robertson Fanatic 72 We must steik oor gabs tae be wise, and dae oor day's darg and no challenge the kirk, or the state.
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