swabby
noun
(in the Navy or Coast Guard) a sailor; gob.
swabbies
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pluralof swabby.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The strong-backed swabbies from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station who filled in were polite but helpless.
From Time Magazine Archive
In an agency of special sensitivity, Turner treated CIA officials much like swabbies on a deck detail.
From Time Magazine Archive
But last week some swabbies from the Cunard liner Queen Mary drifted onto a lee shore and scuttled their pride in one of the dockside saloons of Manhattan's Twelfth Avenue.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hearing the lingo of South Viet Nam, the dogfaces, gyrenes and swabbies of World War II would hardly know Dodge City from the Boonies.
From Time Magazine Archive
And the theatrical skull sings, “Storm fronts that linger upon the horizon; white plastic places where every thought dies in; swabbies and cocktails and parrots' bright wings; these are a few of his least-favorite things.”
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
