What does bab mean?
Bab means (UK, informal) A baby..
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/bæb/ · noun
(UK, informal) A baby..
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.
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.
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’.
Use bab when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bab means (UK, informal) A baby..
Common synonyms include baby, clod.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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