keb

1) Of uncertain meaning.

Halliwell called this a Yorkshire word and gave the meaning as ‘villain’ but Wright said it was not known to his correspondents. The OED preferred ‘cavalier’: 1664 hee further said that there would come a change ere long and then hee would banish both the informer and all his like, kebbs as they were , Attercliffe.

places Attercliffe
dates 1664

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