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HABDABS definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
Slang a highly nervous state.... Click for pronunciations, examples sentences, video. www.collinsdictionary.com
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habdabs, n. meanings, etymology and more
What does the noun habdabs mean? There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun habdabs. See 'Meaning & use' for definition, usage, and quotation evidence. www.oed.com
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How do I use "The screaming abdabs"? - English StackExchange
It is used in sentences such as "it gave me the screaming abdabs", abdabs being and old-fashioned word meaning 'a case of extreme anxiety'. english.stackexchange.com
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habdabs
habdabs slang. (ˈhæbdæbz) Also abdabs. [Orig. obscure.] Nervous anxiety, the heebie-jeebies, esp. in phr. to give (a person) the screaming habdabs.1946 Penguin New Writing XXVIII. 177 Come on, kid. This joint gives me the hab-dabs. 1962 Spectator 8 June 761/3 Treasure Island gives pleasure and excit... Oxford English Dictionary
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Abdabs - Oxford Reference
Abdabs (or habdabs) is mid 20th-century slang whose origin is unknown. The word is sometimes also used to mean an attack of delirium tremens. www.oxfordreference.com
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Habdabs - Oxford Reference
noun Also abdabs. Great anxiety, the heebie-jeebies; esp. in phr. to give (someone) the screaming habdabs. www.oxfordreference.com
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Dogwitch
Kinky, not to mention deranged fans, frisky zombies, and screaming habdabs. Introduction by two-time Bram Stoker Award winner, Michael A. Arnzen. wikipedia.org
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meaning and origin of 'to give somebody the (screaming) (h)abdabs'
The informal British-English phrase to give somebody the (screaming) habdabs, or abdabs, means to make somebody feel extremely agitated or irritated. wordhistories.net
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abdabs, n. - Green's Dictionary of Slang
echoic of the spluttering, hesitant speech of one who is thus afflicted. 1. nervous anxiety; usu. as screaming abdabs. greensdictofslang.com
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habdabs - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Alternative form of abdabs. en.wiktionary.org
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Screaming ab-dabs - World Wide Words
To give someone the screaming abdabs (or habdabs) is a British expression for inducing an attack of extreme anxiety or irritation in someone. www.worldwidewords.org
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Screaming Abdabs : r/etymology - Reddit
Does anyone have any ideas about the origin of the British phrase "screaming abdabs/habdabs". An online search did not give any useful results www.reddit.com
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screamer
screamer (ˈskriːmə(r)) [f. scream v. + -er1.] 1. One who screams; one who sings in shrill piercing tones.1712 Swift Jrnl. to Stella 15 Nov., She must have been tortured with the noise of the Grub Street screamers mentioning her husband's murder to her ears. 1818 Scott Hrt. Midl. xxvi, The screamer a... Oxford English Dictionary
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screaming
▪ I. screaming, vbl. n. (ˈskriːmɪŋ) [f. scream v. + -ing1.] The action of the verb scream.c 1400 Destr. Troy 10182 The skrew for þe skrykyng & skremyng of folke, Redoundet with dyn drede for to here. 1687 T. Brown Saints in Uproar Wks. 1730 I. 72 Such roaring and screaming, such swaggering and bounc... Oxford English Dictionary
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thea
▪ I. the, dem. a. (def. article) and pron. (bef. cons. ðə; bef. vowel ði; emph. ðiː) Forms: see below. [The reduced and flexionless stem of the OE. demonstrative se, séo (later þe, þéo), þæt, the neuter sing. of which has come down as the dem. pron. and adj. that. Com. Teut. and Indo-Eur.: = OFris. ... Oxford English Dictionary
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