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gaberie (1155)
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gaberie (1155)

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gabere  
  FEW:  gabb 16,3b Gdf:  gaberie 4,198a GdfC: ∅ TL: gaberie 4,22 DEAF:  gab (gaberie) G16 DMF:  gaberie  TLF: ∅ OED:  gabbery n.  MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

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1 merriment, amusement: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Bone est la pais emprés la guerre [...]; Mult sunt bones les gaberies E bones sunt les drueries  Brut WACE 10770
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  Por deduit e por gaberie Ad sa dreite veie guerpie  Rom de Rou wace ii 252.9879
2mockery, scorn, derision: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 ) Ceste demande est ironie, Ço est eschar u gaberie  Mirur3 6285
3deceit, insincerity: 
( 1181-85; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Puis le (=personal wealth) rendez  (ms. Par peis le rendez) en leauté – Car ceo est cens e saveté – Al seignur de la cumpaignie, Car dunc n'[en] i ad gaberie  Hosp Rule 1052
en gaberie
in jest, as a joke: 
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiiiex )  Apertement dunt il mustra Ke pas en gaberes nen ama  Donn Am ants 674
faire gaberie de
to mock, sneer at: 
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Mes la reine en est od ses filles marrie Pur sun fiz k’iert vencu, dunt il funt gaberie  Horn 2589

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See also:

gab  gabeis  gabel  gabement  gaber  gabeur  japery 
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