gaby

¹ American  

[gey-bee] / ˈgeɪ bi /

noun

British Dialect.

plural

gabies

1. a fool.

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Gaby ² American  

[gab-ee] / ˈgæb i /

noun

1. a female given name, form of Gabriella.

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gaby British  

/ ˈɡeɪbɪ /

noun

1. archaic a simpleton

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Etymology

Origin of gaby

First recorded in 1790–1800; origin uncertain

Example Sentences

There were passage-ways yet to search, why linger here like a gaby in the dark when perhaps the man I believed to be in hiding somewhere within these walls, was improving the opportunity to escape?

From The House of the Whispering Pines by Green, Anna Katharine

Who but a gaby ever spoke ill of a woman to her sweetheart?

From The Virginians by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Here's my heart broken, that's all; and Elsworthy standing gaping like a gaby as he is.

From The Perpetual Curate by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

Poor old Louisa struggled in her son's arms: she was wet with the melting snow: and she called him, with a jolly laugh, a great gaby.

From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Cannan, Gilbert

"What is the gaby doing, standing there like a gawk?" she shrieked.

From Shrewsbury A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.