gabois

Old French

Alternative forms

gaboi
gaboie

Etymology

From or from the same source as the verb gaber.

Noun

gabois m (oblique plural gabois, nominative singular gabois, nominative plural gabois)

jest; joking
- circa 1177, Chrétien de Troyes, Le Chevalier de la Charrette, page 50 (of the Livres de Poche Lettres gothiques edition, →ISBN, line 98:
  Je n'ai or mestier de gabois
  I don't have the job of joking

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (gabois)

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