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Examples
“Nine-year-old Halima tried to copy bab, the Arabic word for “door.””
“They occasionally sent down about a thousand Baggara horsemen to that place, and their riders scouted around the bluff rocks and hills bordering the Nile on either side of the "bab," or water-gateway and rapids of Shabluka.”
“Just to the north of the square we duck through a scalloped doorway, a bab in Arabic, into the mottled and crooked alleyways of the medina.”
The Huffington Post: Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh?
“August 20th, 2009 12: 35 pm ET so what will she do if this baby is her step-child? what will she tell her kids about this baby will her kids be brother and sisters to this bab? mypitts2”
Elizabeth Edwards: I expect a paternity test on Hunter's child
“Yes | No | Report from bigbassfisher wrote 46 weeks 21 hours ago one time i got some twine and some bab wire and almost caught a bass”
“We at Trusted Translations are excited to announce that this blog has been named as one of the Top 10 language professional blogs in the largest language blog competition hosted annually by bab.la and Lexiophiles.”
“Priscila on behalf of the bab.la and Lexiophiles team”
“If you would like a special description to go along with your blog, just send me an email priscila at bab.la.”
““The father of her bab,” I added after some more looking.”
“For my contract with him had only specified up to the birth, but now that the bab was gone, could not some other woman, without midwifing skills, be brought to the task of guarding my lady?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bab’.
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Noteworthy Words
Here I have in mind a list of words that could be spelled with only the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, and G--and thus could also be played as a tune on the piano.
face, ace, bag, cage, bad, fad, fade, fee, gee, beg, fed, deaf and 98 more...
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outcasts
Words that people on Twitter don't think are words.
I wrote a little script that runs every day. It searches the Twitter API for tweets containing the words, "is not a word". Each (non...unfollow, suppose-ably, qirl, darkskin, haz, stoints, uglyer, boringest, fustrating, linx, yolo, excapes and 22455 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
bumwank, calamity, recalcitrant, gayenese, jeeze, nonsense, flabbergasted, juxtapose, procrastinating, ossanity, biffing, loser and 1972 more... -
Manx Words for Ear-Marks on Sheep, ca...
Seen here. This was obviously too excellent to not be a Wordie list. See also the open list Manx.
cororey-keyragh, beim, baare-beg, bab, fork, onaghan, point, scob, scoltey, skah, skar, towl
Tweets
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chained_bear "A slit in the top of the ear. Manx for 'tip.'"
—W. Walter Gill, Manx Dialect Words and Phrases, 1934 Apr 23, 2009