shab
/ʃæb/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.82 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I have shabbed him off purely"
- "Certain Nipnets intended to have sheltred themselves under Vncas; but he perceiving it would be distastful to the English, soon shab'd them off."
- "I have shabb'd him off purely."
- "They shab'd […] Thomas aff to hell."
- "[…] but when that [money] was gone, and he had not as much ground, that he could call his own, as would sod a lark, they soon shabbed him off."
- "I hold the people in too much esteem, to shab them off with any thing of a secondary quality, whilst Providence has blessed me with the means of providing them the best."
Etymology
From Middle English shabbe, schabbe, from Old English sċeabb, from Proto-West Germanic *skabb, from Proto-Germanic *skabbaz. Doublet of scab.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: shabbe, sċeabb, *skabb, *skabbaz
Usage
- British usage
- Countable
- Obsolete
- Uncountable
- Slang