gabies
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pluralof gaby.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
gabynouna fool.
Example Sentences
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This gentleman will take you for a pair of raw country gabies!
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
Cruel children, crying babies, All grew up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.
From A Child's Garden of Verses by Jessie Willcox Smith
"Well, now, just because I happen to see you with Miss Pauline the other morning, there's half a dozen wise gabies in Wychford who've almost married you to her out of hand."
From Plashers Mead A Novel by Compton MacKenzie
While we stand watching her Staring like gabies, Safe in each egg are the Bird's little babies.
From A Child's Garden of Verses by Jessie Willcox Smith
Eight years ago, when Verona had given a high-school party, the children had been featureless gabies.
From Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis