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Gaby

name
/ˈɡæbi//ˈɡeɪbi/

Etymology

Borrowed from Southern French Gaby, a hypocoristic form of Gabriel.

  1. borrowed from Gaby

Definitions

  1. A female given name from French.

  2. A surname from French.

  3. A stupid, foolish person

    A stupid, foolish person; a simpleton; a dunce.

    • I daresay I made a gaby of myself to the world
    • His wrath, then, was proportionately violent when he was aware of two boys, who stopped close by him, and one of whom, a fat gaby of a fellow, pointed at him and called him "Young mammy-sick!"
    • "[Y]ou're a jobbernowl and a doodle, a maundering mooncalf and a blockheaded numps, a gaby and a loon; you're a Hatter!" I shrieked the last epithet.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Gaby. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA