shab n.
an unpleasant, sneaky person.
![]() | Litany I 19: Neither are those Shabs for any merit in themselues [...] worthy to giue guts vnto a beare . | |
![]() | New General Eng. Dict. n.p.: Shab A mean, sorry, pitiful Fellow, one that is guilty of low Tricks, &c. | |
![]() | New General Eng. Dict. (4th edn). | |
![]() | Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 209: See tight-lac’d Shabs, ape tip-toe Coves. | |
![]() | ‘Jim Crow in London’ in Jim Crow’s Song-Book 8: Respectables all keep a gig, / But all the vulgar shabs, / Drive about the Lunnun streets, / In patent safety cabs. | |
![]() | Lavengro Ch. xcviii: ‘Any name but that, you shab,’ said Black Jack. | |
![]() | Bulletin (Sydney) 21 Mar. 14/3: They don’t begin to know what sport is. They are just ‘shabs.’ Not all the Bulletins or other journals in the world could shame such scum. |
In derivatives
an unpleasant, sneaky person.
![]() | Sl. and Its Analogues. |