mab

mab (plural mabs)

1. (obsolete) A slattern.

mab (third-person singular simple present mabs, present participle mabbing, simple past and past participle mabbed)

1. (obsolete) To dress untidily.

mab in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.

• amb., amb, BMA, Bam, MBA, bam, ABM, BAM, B. M. A., Mba

From Middle Breton mab, from Old Breton map, from Proto-Brythonic *mab, from Proto-Celtic *makʷos.

mab m (plural mibien)

1. son

g=m

From Old Cornish mab, from Proto-Brythonic *mab, from Proto-Celtic *makʷos.

• IPA^(key): [mæːb]

mab m (plural mebyon)

1. son
2. male child, boy

• (boy): maw

• mab-wynn

From Middle Welsh and Old Welsh map, from Proto-Brythonic *mab, from Proto-Celtic *makʷos.

• IPA^(key): /maːb/
• Rhymes: -aːb

mab m (plural meibion)

1. boy, son, infant, child (of either sex), minor, youth
2. descendant
3. man, male

• mam (“mother”)
• merch (“daughter”)
• tad (“father”)

• ab, ap
• llysfab (“stepson”)
• mablygad (“pupil of the eye”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mab”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies