Bab

Quick meaning: Bab is a noun meaning (UK, informal) A baby.

Meaning

(UK, informal) A baby.

More Meanings

1. (fishing, East Anglia) A bait for eels, consisting of a bundle of live worms.
2. (intransitive, fishing, East Anglia) To fish for eels using a bab.

Example Sentences

Sometimes we trolled or set liggers for pike, we seldom babbed for eels, it was such a slimy job.

Another classic example was babbing for eels; he would come along and say — ‘Goodnight for babbing, make you some babs’.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• babs
• babbing
• babbed

Synonyms for bab

Depending on context, synonyms include baby, clod.

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