quab

quab

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwɒb/
• Rhymes: -ɒb

Etymology 1

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Noun

quab (plural quabs)

1. An unfledged bird.
2. (by extension) Something immature or unfinished.
   • 1628, John Ford, The Lover's Melancholy

     You’ll take it well enough; a scholar's fancy,
     A quab; ’tis nothing else, a very quab

Verb

quab (third-person singular simple present quabs, present participle quabbing, simple past and past participle quabbed)

1. Alternative form of quob

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for quab in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)