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Definition: Gabby |
GabbyAdjective1. Full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by gabby neighbors". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Gabby" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a strong man of God". |
Date "gabby" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Slang in 1811 | GABBY. A foolish fellow. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: GabbySynonyms: chatty (adj), garrulous (adj), loquacious (adj), talkative (adj), talky (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Gabby |
| English words defined with "gabby": chatty ♦ garrulous ♦ loquacious ♦ talkative, talky. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well, neither did Gabby Hayes and he was 90, so what! (Three Men and a Baby; writing credit: Jim Cruickshank; James Orr) Well, there's Gabby the loud and annoying. (Shrek; writing credit: Ted Elliott) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Gabby Hayes Show (1956) Gabby Goes Fishing (1941) Porky and Gabby (1937) Prince Gabby (1929) The Best of Sharon and Gabby (1984) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Gabby - the talking current buoy Gabby getting a new face for a Norfolk, Virginia, open house MARMER hosted open house for general public Article appeared in Norfolk Ledger-Star on November 13, 1963.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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| "Gabby" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 89.58% of the time. "Gabby" is used about 48 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 89.58% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 10.42% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 48 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "gabby" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Gabby | Last name | 170 | 43,735 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Gabby" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a strong man of God". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Gabby." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Jabril | Male | Arabic | Gabriel |
| Gabriel | Male | Biblical | N/A |
| Gabby | Male, Female | English | Gabriel |
| Gabe | Male | English | Gabriel |
| Gabriel | Male | English | N/A |
| Kaapo | Male | Finnish | Gabriel |
| Kaapro | Male | Finnish | Gabriel |
| Gabriel | Male | French | N/A |
| Gabrielle | Female | French | Gabriel |
| Gabriel | Male | German | N/A |
| Gabriele | Female | German | Gabriel |
| Gábor | Male | Hungarian | Gabriel |
| Gábriel | Male | Hungarian | Gabriel |
| Gabi | Male | Hungarian | Gabriel |
| Gabriella | Female | Hungarian | Gabriel |
| Gabriele | Male | Italian | Gabriel |
| Gabriella | Female | Italian | Gabriel |
| Gavrel | Male | Jewish | Gabriel |
| Gavril | Male | Jewish | Gabriel |
| Gabriel | Male | Portuguese | N/A |
| Gabriela | Female | Portuguese | Gabriel |
| Gabi | Male | Romanian | Gabriel |
| Gabriel | Male | Romanian | N/A |
| Gabriela | Female | Romanian | Gabriel |
| Gavriil | Male | Russian | Gabriel |
| Gabriel | Male | Spanish | N/A |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gabby | 125 |
gabby hayes | 49 |
concepcion gabby | 26 |
gabby reese | 23 |
gabby reece | 20 |
gabby gourmet | 14 |
gabby logan | 13 |
gabby hoffman | 13 |
gabby goody | 11 |
gabby hay | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gabby"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Gojëlëshuar (back-biting, loquacious, slanderous), Që I Pëlqen Të Bisedojë. (various references) | |
Arabic | مهذار (garrulous, loquacious, prattler, prattling). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Бъбрив, азговорчив. (various references) | |
Czech | Povídavý (conversational, gossipy, narrative, talkative). (various references) | |
German | Geschwätzig (blithering, chatty, garrulous, gossiping, gossipy, loquacious, loquaciously, talkative). (various references) | |
Greek | Φλύαροσ (Prater), ολύλογοσ (Prater). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Fecsegõ (blab, blabber, driveller, long-tongued, loquacious, magpie, prattler). (various references) | |
Italian | Loquace (chattily, conversational, eloquent, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, voluble). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abbygay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Tagarela (babbler, blab, bletherskite, cackler, chatterbox, chatty, clat, gabbler, garrulous, jays, loquacious, milk and water, praties, talkative, tattler, telltale), Charlatão (charlatan, empiric, imposter, medicate, mountebank, pettifogger, quack, quacksalver, sciolist). (various references) | |
Romanian | Limbut (chatterbox, garrulous, long-tongued, talkative, voluble). (various references) | |
Russian | азговорчивый. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | brbljiv (blithering, chatty, gossipy, long-tongued, loquacious). (various references) | |
Spanish | Hablador (big-mouthed, bletherskate, chatty, communicant, demagogue, driveler, driveller, gossip, gossipmonger, joker, talkative, talker, tattler). (various references) | |
Swedish | Pratsjuk (garrulous). (various references) | |
Thai | ช่างพู" (talkative). (various references) | |
Turkish | Geveze (babbler, blab, chatterer, chattering, chatty, gabbler, garrulous, gasbag, gossipy, gushing, gushy, indiscreet, loquacious, mouthy, Prater, prattler, rattlebrain, rattle-pated, talkative, talky, voluble, windbag, windjammer), Konuşkan (articulate, chatty, communicative, conversational, forthcoming, garrulous, glib, gushy, loquacious, talkative, talky, vocal, voluble), Boşboğaz (babbler, blab, chatterbox, communicative, gabbler, garrulous, indiscreet, platitudinarian, raunchy, sieve, tattler), Çenebaz. (various references) | |
Ukranian | "овіркий, Балакучий. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lắm m"m, lém. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Gabby" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aaby, abby, Agbabi, Bagby, gabba, gabbay, gabbe, Gabbi, gabbia, gabo, Galby, g'bye, gebby, gebie, gibb, Gibbie, gibby, giby, Glaby, gobby, Gubay, Gubbay, Jabbie. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gabby" (pronounced ga"bē) |
| 4 | g a" b ē | Gaby. |
| 3 | -a" b ē | Abbe, abbey, cabbie, cabby, crabby, flabby, shabby, tabby. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-g-y" | |
-1 letter: baby, gaby. | |
-2 letters: aby, bag, bay, gab, gay. | |
-3 letters: ab, ag, ay, ba, by, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-b-g-y" | |
+1 letter: grabby. | |
+2 letters: babying. | |
+3 letters: tabbying. | |
+4 letters: grandbaby, yabbering. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 62 62 79 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- -... -... -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01100010 01100010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a b b y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 0062 0062 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4167686891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Frequency | 9. Names: Derived from 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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