Etymology

Standard Habbie

Today it means: A Scottish verse form with six-line stanzas rhyming AAABAB, with tetrameter A lines and dimeter B lines. Full definition →

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The story

After the poet Habbie Simpson (1550-1620).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.