Did you by any chance mean one of these? scabby, shabby, slabby, stably, stubby
Definitions
Etymologies
- stab + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“You just never know when you're going to feel a bit "stabby".”
“It's not often that I feel "stabby" but it's a feeling that is more and more common when I'm doing something like, oh I don't know, breathing oxygen.”
“Angella for the term "stabby" which is so accurate, isn't it?), Hayley decided that she really wanted to cook something.”
“Now Australia's version of the "Today Show" completely falls apart during a discussion about a "long, stabby thing" that one of the co-host's keeps by his bed to fend off intruders.”
“GEORGIE: Well, Tim's my long stabby thing, but I used to have the Olympic torch under the bed when I was single.”
“The ongoing itch has mutated, causing sharp stabby pain yesterday.”
“Anyone out to injure is probably going to know enough to make those things all stabby anyway.”
“My darlings, these are just a few of the many signs that your online dreamboat wants to get all stabby on your fine self.”
“I wear a small metal pin badge on my stabby bearing the flag of my country, the Cross of St George.”
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“As a CBRN officer I get an issued camelback and rig it to my stabby when very hot and on foot, but I spend most of my time in a panda which thankfully has air con.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stabby’.
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Words or Phrases I Should Use In My N...
So I've always kind of eschewed the notion of producing 50,000 words of crap in a single month, but somehow something possessed me to try for it this year. Add stuff to this list and I promise I'll...
you're something ..., sticky rice, plinth, educable, resplendent, albinism, bowling pin, tappen, emerod, Hottentottenpoten..., heady, handlebar mustache and 19 more...
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ecbrenner's list
flatline, luddism, apocalipstick, muttsucker, leviathan of fore..., flint, coryphaeus, donnybrook, bandwidth, bagpipe the mizen, cheesed off, asterism and 525 more...
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ChortleGiggleSnort
Significant Words- Guiding you on your path to Snazzibility
flimsy, feeble, ranting, ramble, narky, snazzy, yoghurt, bulbous, pustule, globulous, geranium, megalomaniac and 521 more...
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Favorite Words That Aren't Really Words
Whether slang, acronyms, or madeupical, they're too good not to put on some list or other. See the companion list, "Favorite Words That Are Really More Like Phrases," here.
pwned, craptacular, embiggen, phwoar, dealie-bob, doojiggy, bootylicious, craptastic, ^_^, π, oo-ee-oo-ah-ah-ti..., gustnado and 326 more...
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sarahatlee's Words
pants, nekkid, schadenfreude, unseasonably, illicit, glaswegian, cripes, futz, drawers, scupper, coulrophobic, redacted and 254 more...
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neologisms I like
nimrod, snarky, painbow, interrobang, hoser, kooky, craptastic, preggers, asshat, brainiac, shoegaze, skanker-sore and 146 more...
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S is for Sweater Puppy
My S Words
secret agent, sweater puppy, skivvies, soda jerk, surly, space madness, sad sack, sadsack, scoundrel, scrabble, shaken teddy bear..., saucy and 181 more...
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seanahan's Words
lacustrine, indubitably, masala, balustrade, arcane, gambit, bagatelle, demonstrative, epicaricacy, cacophony, archetype, picaresque and 418 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1707 more...
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snarlie
grumpy words
snarly, peevish, grumpy, fractious, persnickety, scathing, shirty, stroppy, tetchy, waspish, grumble, peeve and 28 more...
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Weekly Words (Oct 5, 2008)
I am using Mechanical Turk to collect “words of the week†from 100 different people.
nauseous, bildungsroman, stabby, bored, faith, crisis, positive, hectic, friendly, dogs, easy, awesome and 75 more...
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News to me
phlogiston, blancmange, hamartia, irruption, concatenation, satispassion, atrabilious, caliginous, zenzizenzizenzic, batrachian, nychthemeron, spalpeen and 12 more...
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jdfalk's Words
prang, asshat, goob, phatic, kinda, ghee, stabby, tivo, spooge, spume, splode, splody and 17 more...
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English Words I take from Wordies
English Words I take from Wordies / Palabras en Inglés que tomo de otros Wordies
hullabaloo, chubby, stabby, ogle, intercourse, slobber, pneumonoultramicr..., palaver, disguise
Tweets
Looking for tweets for stabby.
chained_bear Actors are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time. :) Sep 25, 2009
hernesheir Reminds me of Hamlet's instructions to the players who are to perform the play-within-a-play in Act III Scene II:
"Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness."
Sep 25, 2009
ecbrenner "Of a person, prone to stabbing or making a series of short slashing or poking motions; of a thing, able to prod, pierce, or cut. Also in figurative uses." --Double-Tongued Dictionary Sep 25, 2009
trivet It is nice and snarly, though. Oct 18, 2007
seanahan Also, this is how I feel when driving my car. Or when watching the news, or when browsing the internet, or ...
Hmm, maybe I have anger management issues. Oct 18, 2007
chained_bear This is just such a perfect word for that. I love it. Oct 18, 2007
seanahan How I feel when see really annoying words. Oct 18, 2007