gaby

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He has a word "gaby," which he will sometimes enlarge to "stuppid gaby," the which, flung neatly into a man who has just missed a catch, will fill the same with a whirl of furious curses difficult to restrain.

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  1. A silly, foolish person; a simpleton; a dunce. [Colloq. or prov. Eng.] Now don't stand laughing there like a great gaby, but come and shake hands. H. Kingsley, Geoffry Hamlyn, ix.

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  • I think there's a real ... gaby: I liked the photography, beautifully taken and when needed, enough shocking to wake us up. —  The Sietch Blog
  • I got more information about Permaculture but yet to know more and more stuff about this because it is huge ... gaby: Boy! —  The Sietch Blog
  • Then William Adolphus gave a laugh She's got to get used to you," he said Precisely," said I For that was pretty Elsa's task in life CHAPTER XIX GREAT PROMOTION I should be doing injustice to my manners and (a more serious offence) distorting truth, if I represented myself as a shy gaby, afraid or ashamed to make love because people knew the business on which I was engaged. —  The King's Mirror
  • He has a word "gaby," which he will sometimes enlarge to "stuppid gaby," the which, flung neatly into a man who has just missed a catch, will fill the same with a whirl of furious curses difficult to restrain. —  Certain Personal Matters
  • Now no man shall say that I'm a home-stayin' gaby, tramping up an' down Teign Vale for a living. —  Children of the Mist
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  1. Also dial. gawby; apparently connected with Icelandic gapi, a rash, reckless man (gapa-mudhr, a gaping, heedless fellow), from gapa, gape: see gape.
 

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