bab
/bæb/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of the Báb.
noun
Example Sentences
- "The worms were threaded onto the yarn until we had 4 or 5 feet of big juicy worms threaded through. We would coil it all up and put an old rusty nut at the centre and tie it on a bit of string on an old ash pole — this was the bab."
- "The babbers follow the eels, and you may see fifteen boats as close together as possible, babbing away, and catching as much as four stone-weight of eels per boat of a night."
- "Sometimes we trolled or set liggers for pike, we seldom babbed for eels, it was such a slimy job."
- "Another classic example was babbing for eels; he would come along and say — ‘Goodnight for babbing, make you some babs’."
- "Blame avoidance behavior (BAB) encompasses all kinds of integrity-protecting activities by officeholders in the face of potentially blame-attracting events. It is increasingly common for scholars to scrutinize political decisions and their effects in order to establish whether, and to what degree, they have been caused by officeholders’ motivation to avoid blame. By now, BAB is considered a widespread phenomenon that is essential for a realistic understanding of the nature and workings of political systems."
- "In other words, politicians who feel distrusted may upweight the risks attached to policy failure, whilst politicians who feel mistrusted may upweight the risks attached to being ‘caught out’ in their BAB."
Etymology
Usage
- British usage
- Informal
- Intransitive verb