quab

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"They call it quap, or quab, or quabb," said Gordon-Nasmyth; "but our relations weren't friendly enough to get the accent right ....

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  1. A fish, the eel-pout or miller's-thumb. Minsheu.
  2. A gudgeon. Also quabling and quap. A quabling or little quabbe, a fish, … gouión. Minsheu.
  3. A squab, or other unfledged young bird. See squab.
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  • "They call it quap, or quab, or quabb," said Gordon-Nasmyth; "but our relations weren't friendly enough to get the accent right .... —  Tono Bungay
 

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  1. Early modern English quabbe; from Middle Dutch quabbe, quappe, Dutch kwab, kwabbe = Old Low German quappa, Middle Low German quappe, Low German quabbe, quappe, an eel-pout, = German quabbe. quappe, an eel-pout, tadpole, = Swedish qvabba = Danish kvabbe, a burbot; so called from its active motions; from the verb represented by quab, quap. Cf. quap.
  2. from quab, v., as squab from squab, v.
 

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