habnab

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Adjective

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habnab (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Happening randomly.
    • ~1596, Ben Jonson, A Tale of a Tub[1]:
      I put it
      Ev'n to your worship's bitterment, habnab;
      I shall have a chance of the dice for it.

      (As quoted in Wedgwood's Dictionary of English Etymology)

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