Gabbed vs Cabbed - What's the difference?
gabbed | cabbed |
(gab)
idle chatter
The mouth or gob.
One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines.
(obsolete) To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.
To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects.
(obsolete) To speak or tell falsely.
(cab)
A taxi; a taxicab.
Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver
Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower
Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet
* 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty)
To travel by taxicab.
An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure, held by some to have been about 1.4 liters, by others about 2.4 liters.
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.3:
(video games, informal) An arcade cabinet; the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.
As verbs the difference between gabbed and cabbed
is that gabbed is (gab) while cabbed is (cab).gabbed
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Verb
(head)gab
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* gabby * gift of the gabVerb
(gabb)Anagrams
* * * * ----cabbed
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Verb
(head)cab
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Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- Captain went out in the cab' all the morning. Harry came in after school to feed me and give me water. In the afternoon I was put into the ' cab . Jerry took as much pains to see if the collar and bridle fitted comfortably as if he had been John Manly over again. When the crupper was let out a hole or two it all fitted well. There was no check-rein, no curb, nothing but a plain ring snaffle. What a blessing that was!