gabban

== Old English == === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *gabbōn, from Proto-Germanic *gabbōną (“to mock, jest”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- (“to be split, be forked, gape”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɡɑb.bɑn/ === Verb === gabban to scoff, mock, jest ==== Descendants ==== English: gab === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “gabban”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.