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bab¹

  • /bæb/

Rhymes with -æb

Where it comes from

Clipping of babby (“baby”).

noun babs

  1. UK, informal A baby.

    Similar: baby

bab²

Where it comes from

Probably related to bob.

noun babs

  1. East Anglia A bait for eels, consisting of a bundle of live worms. 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.

    Similar: clod

verb babs · babbing · babbed

  1. East Anglia, intransitive To fish for eels using a 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.

Bab³

proper noun the Bab

  1. alternative Alternative form of the Báb

Bab⁴

proper noun

  1. Synonym of Set (“Egyptian god”).

    Similar: Set

BAB⁵

noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of blame avoidance behavior 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, t

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: section, republic, pape, gate, chapter, door, for, nasr, oued, babby, babbie, babber, bubby, boaby, oops baby, babez

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@misc{bab_2026,
  title = {bab},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bab},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}