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1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 386:
Having arrived at night I can speak with some authority on the desolate feeling the road produces: the white fire-scarred trunks, the unsettling vision of yabbies moving from one side of the road to the other.
2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 47:
Wiradjuri people in New South Wales also built large dams, and then carried fish and yabbies in coolamons over large distances to stock the new waterholes.
1961, T. S. Hailstone, W. Stephenson, “The Biology of Callianassa (Trypaea) australiensis Dana 1852 (Crustacea, Thalassinidea)”, in University of Queensland Papers: Department of Zoology, volume I, number 12, page 260:
Callianassa australiensis is known in southern New South Wales as the "ghost-nipper" (Dakin, Bennett and Pope, 1952), and in northern New South Wales and Queensland as the "yabby" (a word of aboriginal origin also applied to freshwater crayfish).
2007, J. McEnally, L. McEnally, “Yabbies (saltwater)”, in Julie & Lawrie McEnally's Complete Book of Fishing Baits & Rigs, page 70:
Putting the yabby on a hook takes a little care and hook sizes need to match the physical dimensions of the yabby.
2007, J. Woodford, chapter 12, in Whitecap, page 132:
Now she held the net in front of the pump so Penny could empty its contents. The first suck was mud, the second sometimes yielded a couple of yabbies but on the third, three or four yabbies nearly always spurted out, flicking their tails, weakly opening and closing their nippers.
yabby (third-person singular simple presentyabbies, present participleyabbying, simple past and past participleyabbied)
(intransitive) To search, forage, or fish for yabbies.
2005, F. Mathews, editor, Reinhabiting Reality: Towards a Recovery of Culture, page 156:
He would have known the Merri well, given the affinity between boys and creeks, and he probably fished and yabbied there.
2006, G. Cowlishaw, editor, Bourke: Our Yarns: The Stories Behind 'Blackfellas, Whitefellas', page 83:
The kids in town now that have the most fun are the so-called 'feral kids'. They spend the whole days doing what we used to do, yabbying and on the river.
2019, C. Zagar, Your Feet Take You To Where Your Heart Is, page 90:
"Can we go yabbying?" "It'll be too hot," I say. "It's never too hot for yabbying." We are creating Christmas memories for our son.
Usage notes
Often used phrasally (go yabbying), by analogy with go fishing.
Etymology 2
Unknown.
Verb
yabby (third-person singular simple presentyabbies, present participleyabbying, simple past and past participleyabbied)
2019, J. Collins, Fela: Katakuta Notes, page 160:
So Abiola invite Fela to his house for a big party, and Fela have to go as they are family—even though Fela had yabbied Abiola in his song "ITT" [International Thief Thief]. And it's true, Abiola duped the country for that money—everybody knows it.
