tabi
“tabi” is a Cebuano word. Its 11 meanings in English:
- chitchat
- talk; empty boasting, promises or claims
- a rumor; a statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth
- gossip; idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present
- to talk; to communicate, usually by means of speech
- to criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself
- to chitchat
- to gossip
- excuse me
- go away
- a customary expression to excuse oneself from spirits or ghosts so as to avoid offending or injuring them, used especially when passing through or entering an unfamiliar, wooded or haunted place
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