gaby
noun
a fool.
gaby
1 American
[gay-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
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Surely Aglaya hasn't fallen in love with such a gaby!
From The Idiot by Eva M. Martin
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 Gilbert Cannan
Such this gaby, my own, my arch fool; he sees not, he hears not Who himself is, or if the self is, or is not, he knows not.
From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Robinson Ellis
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
To which Fanny made the short answer, 'That gaby.'
From Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
Ireland's batters impressed in the opener by posting 281 but their lack of depth was exposed without contributions from the experienced duo of Gaby Lewis or Orla Prendergast here.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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
The virus that’s found in the Americas tends to cause a cardiopulmonary syndrome, a condition that affects both the heart and the lungs, said Dr. Gaby Frank, director of Johns Hopkins Special Pathogens Center.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 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
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
This gentleman will take you for a pair of raw country gabies!
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
"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
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
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
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