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English
Etymology
Uncertain.
Pronunciation
Noun
gaby (plural gabies)
- (UK, regional) A stupid, foolish person; a simpleton; a dunce.
- Synonyms: guffin, nincompoop, fool
1902, John Kendrick Bangs, chapter 10, in Olympian Nights:"[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.
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Conjunction
gaby
- if
- Synonyms: -li, gaž, joli
Etymology 2
Univerbation of gaž (“if”) + by (“would”)
Verb
gaby (defective, invariable)
- if… would
Further reading
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “gaby”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999) “gaby”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag