habnab

English

Adjective

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)

References

• Wedgwood, Hensleigh; A Dictionary of English Etymology, Vol 2 (E-P); 1862, p. 199