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gabby

1 American  
[gab-ee] / ˈgæb i /

adjective

gabbier, gabbiest
  1. talkative; garrulous.


Gabby 2 American  
[gab-ee] / ˈgæb i /

noun

  1. a male given name, form of Gabriel.

  2. a female given name, form of Gabriella.


gabby British  
/ ˈɡæbɪ /

adjective

  1. informal inclined to chatter; talkative

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of gabby

First recorded in 1710–20; gab 1 + -y 1


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Usually he’s very gabby about goings on in the world of golf, but the isolation has given him less to share and inquire about.

From Golf Digest ● Apr. 8, 2020

After college, he tried and failed to persuade the C.I.A. to employ him; the real-life agency, unlike its fictional counterparts, prefers not to hire young men who are gabby and insubordinate.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 3, 2017

He said he was concerned potential employers might not be eager to hire someone so gabby about a former workplace.

From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2016

She was a regular as feisty Grandma Yetta on the 1990s sitcom “The Nanny,” and in the early 1960s, played Millie Helper, Laura Petrie’s gabby pal, on the acclaimed “Van Dyke” series.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2016

In recent years they had fallen in with a gabby, childless couple, older than they were, called the MacNatts.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Several other players have spoken out against the ire directed at transgender women, including Cloud, the Valkyries’ Gabby Williams and Storm’s Stefanie Dolson.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

Gabby Foster, a Black woman who has traveled solo to seven countries, makes connections with locals before she even lands.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

Nell’s plan to shuttle Gabby off to another local hostess is foiled, and all three women find themselves cohabitating uneasily, even as Gabby and Orla strike up a friendly intimacy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Wearing T-shirts proclaiming "Victim exploitation does not equal victim advocacy", the parents of Gabby Petito have their own booth to promote their foundation, which supports missing persons cases and domestic violence prevention.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

Aly and Maddie were in one room, Laurie and I were in another room, and Gabby had a room to herself.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

Such channels are already scarce, and they will get scarcer still as more and gabbier satellites for communication, navigation and weather watching take to space.

From Time Magazine Archive

When asked to identify the best trash talker on the offensive side of the ball, receiver DeVante Parker didn’t hesitate in identifying his quarterback as the gabbiest.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

Werner Herzog’s chatty, mostly fascinating contribution to this year’s Seattle International Film Festival was this talkathon featuring several of the world’s gabbiest prophets.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2016

Geckos are the gabbiest, and some produce “a variety of chirps, clicks, and squeaks, some inaudible to humans,” Espinoza says.

From National Geographic ● Oct. 24, 2015

Last week the fans got a new radio & TV announcer, and the gabbiest one of all: old-time Movie Comic Joe E. Brown.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yes! heroic Swan, I love thee even when thou gabbiest like a goose; for thy geese helped to save the Capitol.

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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