Definitions
Informal talk, chatter, or casual conversation.
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English gab, gabbe, from Old Norse gabb (“jest, mockery”) (whence also Old French gab, gap (“mockery, derision, scorn”)). Cognate with Icelandic gabb (“hoax”).
Used in a sentence
“Loose eccentric reversing gear gave way about 1836 to the early forms of gab motion. [...] In 1840 Stephenson evolved a motion in which the gabs were connected directly to the valve spindle.”
“He would chant his own doughty deeds, and “gab,” as the Norman word was, in painful earnest, while they gabbed only in sport, and outvied each other in impossible fanfaronades””
“"That Mrs. Mender gives a bloke the ear-ache; thinks a bloke's got all day to waste listening to her gab."”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Chat idly”3 letters
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