Randomly vs Habnab - What's the difference?
randomly | habnab |
(obsolete) Happening randomly.
* {{quote-book , year=~1596 , title=A Tale of a Tub , author= , url=http://hollowaypages.com/jonson1692tub.htm
, passage=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 )
As an adverb randomly
is in a random way.As an adjective habnab is
(obsolete) happening randomly.habnab
English
Adjective
(-)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 )
References
* Wedgwood, Hensleigh;A Dictionary of English Etymology, Vol 2 (E-P); 1862, p. 199