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gabbock Sc. and Anglo-Irish.|ˈgæbək|
Also 8 gabback, 9 gabbok, -buck, gobbock.
[a. Ir. gobóg a dog-fish, a sand-eel; Sc. Gael. gobag.]
A dog-fish.
Quot. 1719 is doubtful. Jamieson, after Sibbald, interprets gappocks as = ‘gobbets, morsels, pieces’.
1719D'Urfey Pills VI. 352 There'll be..Fish of geud Gabback and Skate. [Herd Scot. Songs (1776) II. 25 With fouth of good gabbock of skate. Ritson Scot. Songs (1794) I. 211 And fouth of good gappoks of skate.] 1867Smyth Sailor's Work-bk., Gabbok, a voracious dog-fish which infests the herring fisheries in St. George's Channel. 1880Antrim & Down Gloss., Gabbuck or Gobbock, the piked dog-fish. |