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grabby

adj
/ˈɡɹæbi/US

Etymology

From grab + -y.

  1. derived from *gʰrebʰ-✻ — “to gather, rake, grab, seize”
  2. derived from *grabōną✻ — “to gather, rake”
  3. derived from *grabbōn✻
  4. derived from gravan
  5. borrowed from grabben — “to grasp, grab, seize, snatch”
  6. borrowed from grabben
  7. suffixed as grabby — “grab + y”

Definitions

  1. Tending to grab, especially rudely or greedily.

  2. Attention-grabbing

    Attention-grabbing; striking, stimulating.

    • Nearly every bookstore contains a designated Colleen Hoover table, display case or section, stuffed with vague but grabby titles, like “All Your Perfects” and “Ugly Love.” I slorped down three of them in one week.
    • By “this” he meant that the platform was filled with videos that have sensationalized titles, heavily edited content and grabby thumbnails, often featuring a person’s emotive face.

  3. Humanlike hand of some animals, mainly rodents and primates.

    • Look at that gerbil and his little grabbies! So cute.

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Derived

grabbily, grabbiness, grabby arm

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for grabby. 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