knab
See also: Knab
English
editEtymology
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editknab (third-person singular simple present knabs, present participle knabbing, simple past and past participle knabbed)
- (colloquial) To nab or steal.
- (obsolete) To seize with the teeth; to gnaw.
- 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
- a Mouthful of Fresh Grats to Knab upon
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “knab”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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editDutch
editEtymology
editPertaining to the group of words for thick objects with initial kn- such as knobbel, knoop, knuppel. Cognate with western German Knäppchen (“heel of bread”).
Noun
editknab ? (plural knabben, diminutive [please provide])