BAB

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A baby.
2. isim A bait for eels, consisting of a bundle of live worms.

   “The worms were threaded onto the yarn until we had 4 or 5 feet of big juicy worms threaded through. We would coil it all up and put an old rusty nut at the centre and tie it on a bit of string on an old ash pole — this was the bab.”

3. fiil To fish for eels using a bab.

   “The babbers follow the eels, and you may see fifteen boats as close together as possible, babbing away, and catching as much as four stone-weight of eels per boat of a night.”

4. özel isim Alternative form of the Báb.
5. özel isim Synonym of Set (“Egyptian god”).
6. özel isim ʻAlí Muḥammad (1820–1850), the founder of Bábism.
7. isim Initialism of blame avoidance behavior

   “In other words, politicians who feel distrusted may upweight the risks attached to policy failure, whilst politicians who feel mistrusted may upweight the risks attached to being ‘caught out’ in their BAB.”