habnab
English
Adjective
habnab (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Happening randomly.
- ~1596, Ben Jonson, A Tale of a Tub:
- I put it
Ev'n to your worship's bitterment, habnab;
I shall have a chance of the dice for it.
(As quoted in Wedgwood's Dictionary of English Etymology)
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References
- Wedgwood, Hensleigh; A Dictionary of English Etymology, Vol 2 (E-P); 1862, p. 199