- 1閒聊、碎碎念、瞎聊（口語）。the gift of the gab 則是「很會說話、嘴皮子利」。
To gab is to talk and talk, usually about small things — neighbours, lunch, what someone said — not a serious speech. It is informal. Friends gab on the phone; people at work gab by the coffee machine. It can sound a little impatient, as if the talking is more noise than news, but it is not a hard insult; it is closer to chatter than to a fight. As a noun, gab is that kind of talk. English also has the set phrase the gift of the gab, meaning you are good at talking, often at getting people to listen or agree. Though actually, the older story of the word is a bit sharper: it comes from Middle English, from Old Norse gabb (jest, mockery) for the noun, and from Old English gabban and Old Norse gabba (to mock, to joke) for the verb. Today's English has mostly it into 'chat a lot'. You will hear it in casual British and American talk; you will not need it in a school essay.
組成From Middle English gab / gabben. The noun comes from Old Norse gabb (jest, mockery). The verb comes from Old English gabban and Old Norse gabba (to mock, to joke), from an older Germanic root meaning to mock or jest.
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Gabname
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A diminutive of the male given name Gabriel.
gabnoun詞源 1/ɡæb/
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Idle chatter.
- Ah, find some chirk in ye, lad. Now is the time for gab and chatter. Y’best be enjoying it. Come a fortnight and the brace of us’ll be wantin’ to be ever silent as the tomb. Even to clap eyes on each other... It’ll make y’hotter than hell!
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The mouth or gob.
- 3
One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines.
- 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.
gabverb詞源 2/ɡæb/
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obsoleteTo 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."
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obsoleteTo speak or tell falsely.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- gender-atypical behavior
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。