gab

name

Etymology: Clipping of Gabriel.

1. A diminutive of the male given name Gabriel.

noun

1. Initialism of gender-atypical behavior.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English gabben, from Old English gabban (“to scoff, mock, delude, jest”) and Old Norse gabba (“to mock, make sport of”); both from Proto-Germanic *gabbōną (“to mock, jest”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- (“to be split, be forked, gape”). Cognate with Scots gab (“to mock, prate”), North Frisian gabben (“to jest, sport”), Middle Dutch gabben (“to mock”), Middle Low German gabben (“to jest, have fun”).

1. To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.

   “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””

2. To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects.

   “"That Mrs. Mender gives a bloke the ear-ache; thinks a bloke's got all day to waste listening to her gab."”

3. To speak or tell falsely.