jabby

One of the few who does is Rupert Everett, whose funny, jabby, self-deprecating, mortality-tinged, Madonna-injected memoir Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins has gone mystifyingly underappreciated, a state of neglect I'm going to try to help remedy when I put together a recommended Christmas list of the best, most unsung books of 2007.

More Suck Than Blow: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

I thought she was going to fall forward and stab Gibson in the heart with her jabby little index finger.

Why Palin's "Bush Doctrine" Gaffe Matters: Does She Know What Foreign Policy Doctrine Is? 2009

I didn't score particularly well, but that was largely due to unfamiliarity with a tricky course and that jabby putting stroke, as Mr. Smith had predicted.

18 Holes in 45 Minutes 2008

But maybe I am too quick with my jabby responses when someone responds in a way I don't like.

Archive 2006-01-01 WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2006

Since 1978 this British group, led by the invariably bored-looking and - sounding Mark E. Smith, above, has issued a steady, mostly predictable stream of songs characterized by jagged, jabby guitar; choppy rhythms; and Mr. Smith's cynical, tuneless slur, in lines that can be droll ( "The dead cannot contradict") or simply stupid ( "Pay your rates/Pay your water rates").

The Fall online - latest Fall News 2006

I fiddled with it for a bit, then went over to the jabby place.

Archive 2005-04-01 2005

I fiddled with it for a bit, then went over to the jabby place.

a saturday in the life of an incredibly boring person 2005

"Oh, it just tumbled into the office and yelled and waved jabby things and made faces at you till you nearly burst with laughing."

Mary Olivier: a Life May Sinclair 1904

Maybe things like that don't sound jabby when two dozen men hear them!

At Good Old Siwash George Fitch 1896

Too bad you couldn't combine your tattoo and your jabby-pokey machine.

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