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語源 1

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名詞

quab (plural quabs)

1. (Can we verify this sense?) An unfledged bird; squab
2. (by extension, obsolete) Something immature or unfinished.
   • 1628, John Ford, The Lover's Melancholy:

     You’ll take it well enough; a scholar's fancy,
     A quab; ’tis nothing else, a very quab

語源 2

動詞

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

1. Alternative form of quob.