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Etymology 1

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Variant of squab?”)

Noun

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quab (plural quabs)

  1. An unfledged bird.
  2. (by extension) Something immature or unfinished.

Etymology 2

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Verb

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quab (third-person singular simple present quabs, present participle quabbing, simple past and past participle quabbed)

  1. Alternative form of quob

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 quab”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)