tabnabとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

tabnab (複数形 tabnabs)

1. (slang, Britain, Navy) A small item of food offered at break times, normally the morning break.
   • 1928 Malcolm Lowry, The Collected Poetry of Malcolm Lowry, "The Cook In The Gallery", UBC Press, 1992, p.39:

     He comes outside when weather's fine / To hang his singlets on the line, / And then returns - he needs no bell - / The scouse, or Sunday's duff to share; / The stokers tabnabs need his care; / The sea sounds far away in there, / Ssssssssh, like the hush in a conch-shell.

参照

• “tabnab” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
• “Tabnabs” in Michael Quinion, World Wide Words^[1], 7 November 2009.