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... means to cheat , delude , mock ; the Old English gabbe is to lie , or to tattle . In Hartshorne's Shropshire Glossary we find - " Gab , s . 1. Small talk , fluent utterance of nonsense . Ex . The gift of the gab . Neither the ...
... means to cheat , delude , mock ; the Old English gabbe is to lie , or to tattle . In Hartshorne's Shropshire Glossary we find - " Gab , s . 1. Small talk , fluent utterance of nonsense . Ex . The gift of the gab . Neither the ...
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... means a chorus . J. O. Halliwell , in his Dict . of Archaic Words , considers it to mean a company of birds ; a charm of goldfinches is a flock of them . It also stands for " a hum or low In the one sense it is ana- murmuring noise ...
... means a chorus . J. O. Halliwell , in his Dict . of Archaic Words , considers it to mean a company of birds ; a charm of goldfinches is a flock of them . It also stands for " a hum or low In the one sense it is ana- murmuring noise ...
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... means variously - head , knob , butt , the summit of a hill , a defile running round a hill , or neck of a With the terminal ing ( as Colling ) it means an hill generally . Might we expand it into downs ! inhabitant , the person who ...
... means variously - head , knob , butt , the summit of a hill , a defile running round a hill , or neck of a With the terminal ing ( as Colling ) it means an hill generally . Might we expand it into downs ! inhabitant , the person who ...
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