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• gaby
  gaby

  noun

  a fool.
• Gaby
  Gaby

  noun

  a female given name, form of Gabriella.

gaby

¹ American  

[gey-bee] / ˈgeɪ bi /

noun

British Dialect.

• gabies
  plural

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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• gabies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of gaby

First recorded in 1790–1800; origin uncertain

Example Sentences

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gaby Gaby gabies

"Well, then, you gaby," said the soldier good-humouredly, "go straight to La Tournelle; you know where it is?"

From El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

"Why, because he was a gaby, and you're another; and I wouldn't marry either of you to save your lives—now then!"

From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley

S. She called me "Lad," ay, and "rogue, silly gaby, and gallowsbird."

From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

Nothing at all in itself—the marine officer is a bit of a gaby, and takes offence where none is meant.

From Peter Simple by Frederick Marryat

Now, don't stand laughing there like a great gaby, but come and shake hands.

From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley

Under slightly different circumstances, it’s a storyline that could belong to her “Shrinking” character, Gaby Evans, a therapist who brings her sunny demeanor, audacious sense of humor and enviable stores of energy into every room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Gaby means something to people, it feels like — and that’s really nice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 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

“Ashley, sit down! Gaby, raise your hand. Put that down right now!”

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

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

This gentleman will take you for a pair of raw country gabies!

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann

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

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

“I have been a play-actor and know how to stage a pair of gabies to the show.”

From The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy