abishag
English
Etymology
From Hebrew אבישג (“Avishag”, literally “Father of error” or “the Father wanders”), from אבי (avi, “father of; my father”) and שגג (shagag, “to go astray; to err; to sin”).
Noun
abishag (plural abishags)
- (archaic, thieves' cant) The illegitimate child of an unmarried woman and a married man.
Hypernyms
- bastard, love-child
References
- “abishag” in Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press, 1889–1890, page 5.
- Eric Partridge, A Dictionary of the Underworld, London, Macmillan Co., 1949