Meaning

1 senses

  1. (East Anglia)To fish for eels using a bab.

Examples

7 sentences

  1. William was originally from Bab El Oued.

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  2. I was born in Algiers, in Bab-el-Oued.

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  3. What is happening in the Bab al-Mandab Strait?

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  4. William didn't intend to fully walk back to Bab El Oued.

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  5. We paid a visit to a bowling alley located in Bab Ezzouar, Algiers.

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Origin

Probably related to bob.

Probably related to bob.

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Forms

babs, babbing, babbed, babbed
Base formbab · to bab
3rd person singularbabs
Present participlebabbing
Past simplebabbed
Past participlebabbed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybab
he, she, itbabs

Past simpleLesson

all personsbabbed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave babbed
he, she, ithas babbed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bab

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
azurebbabbleC2babebabel

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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