gaby
noun
a fool.
gaby
1 American
[gey-bee]
/ ˈgeɪ bi /
noun
British Dialect.
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gabies
plural
Gaby
2
American
[gab-ee]
/ ˈgæb i /
noun
gaby
British
/ ˈɡeɪbɪ /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of gaby
First recorded in 1790–1800; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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Here's my heart broken, that's all; and Elsworthy standing gaping like a gaby as he is.
From The Perpetual Curate by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
"A gaby who bows low in my presence," replied the Duke.
From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Honor? de Balzac
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 Anna Katharine Green
It does not take an Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu to see that, gaby!
From The Man in Black by Stanley John Weyman
He was guided by Miss Loach all his life, and now she's dead, he goes about like a gaby.
From The Secret Passage by Fergus Hume
Despite their struggles in the field, Ireland earlier impressed with the bat to post 281-5, with half-centuries for captain Gaby Lewis, Amy Hunter and Rebecca Stokell.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
The facility looks more like a hotel than a hospital, said Dr. Gaby Frank, director for the Center for Special Pathogens at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
Gaby Pacheco, president of TheDream.US, an organisation that provides scholarships to undocumented immigrants, told the BBC that the case should serve as a "wake-up call."
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
Mutual support strengthens the shelter Jimmy, Paul and Gaby have created.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2026
“Ashley, sit down! Gaby, raise your hand. Put that down right now!”
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
This gentleman will take you for a pair of raw country gabies!
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
Good Hivens!" roared the visitor, "what a gauntlet o' gabies for one girl to run; and come out alive!
From Hard Cash by Charles Reade
"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 The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
During all these years I have followed with reverent fingers not only the slopes of its roof but the loops of swinging clematis that crowd its balconies and gabies as well.
From The Parthenon By Way Of Papendrecht by Francis Hopkinson Smith
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