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Definition: GABY |
GABYNoun1. A simpleton; a dunce; a lout. |
Date "GABY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references) |
Note: Gaby \Ga"by\, noun. [Icel. gapi rash, reckless man. Compare to Gafe.]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fool | Noun: fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass; ninny, ninnyhammer; chowderhead, chucklehead; dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl; goose, goosecap; imbecile; gaby; radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany; trifler, babbler; pretty fellow; natural, niais. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Miss Gaby (1972) Gaby (1956) Le Chevalier de Gaby (1920) Pour épouser Gaby (1917) Kom igen Gaby! (1991) | |
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| "GABY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 86.67% of the time. "GABY" is used about 15 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) | 86.67% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (singular) | 13.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "GABY" 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 |
| Gaby | Last name | 200 | 30,399 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "GABY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | budalla (anserine, anserous, asinine, ass, blunderhead, booby, brainless, cabbage-head, chuckle-head, clod, cloddish, clod-poll, cockeyed, daft, dense, Dick, dim witted, dimwit, dumb, dumbbell, fathead, fool, gaga, goof, goofy, goon, Goosey, gowk, half wit, idiot, idle-headed, imbecile, jobbernowl, jolterhead, josser, juggins, loon, mindless, moke, muff, mutton head, mutton-headed, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nut, owl, pin head, pumpkin-head, sheep's head, silly, slow witted, softhead, soft-headed, softy, spoony, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, witless). (various references) | |
Arabic | المغفل (boob, booby, daw, dullard, dunce, dunderhead, dupe, featherbrain, gander, gawk, idiot, jackass, lout, lunkhead, moron, mug, mugful, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, noodle, numskull, simpleton, sucker, zany), الساذج (dupe, goose, gull, lamb, loon, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, pigeon, simpleton, villain, zany). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | глупак (bird brained, blinker, boeotian, bonehead, boob, booby, calf, chuckle-head, clod, clot, coot, dodo, dotterel, driveler, dummy, fathead, flat, fool, gawk, goof, goon, gowk, greenhorn, gull, hammerhead, jackass, jobbernowl, lack-brain, lame brain, leather-head, lunkhead, muggins, mutt, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nutter, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap, sap-head, schmo, schnook, sheep's head, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, spoon, stupe, stupid, thickhead, tomfool, twit, witling, wittol, zany, zombie). (various references) | |
Czech | hlupák (ass, blockhead, booby, chump, dolt, dotterel, dottrel, dunce, dupe, fool, half wit, idiot, ignoramus, jobbernowl, leather-head, loggerhead, pudding-head, sap-head, simpleton, thick-head, tomfool). (various references) | |
French | vadrouille, idiot (gawky). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tökfilkó (blockhead, blunderhead, cabbage-head, chuckle, dimwit, dolt, dunce, goof, goon, goop, jobbernowl, jolterhead, loggerhead, loghead, lunkhead, mutt, mutton head, mutton-headed, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, noodle, numb-skull, numskull, sap, silly billy, simp, simple sammy, softy, tom-noddy). (various references) | |
Indonesian | orang pandir (imbecile), orang bodoh (blockhead, duffer, goofy). (various references) | |
Italian | sempliciotto (Cully, muggins, nincompoop, simple simon, simpleton). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abygay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tonto (crazy, dizzy, dotard, dotty, giddy, light-headed, moony, spellbound, tipsy), tolo (addle-brained, addled, corny, cuddy, daft, dull, finical, fool, foolish, goat, gowk, gull, hard-hearted, inept, insane, insensate, looby, loony, mad, madman, naïve, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, pigeon, pumpkin-head, screwy, silly, simpleton, softhead, softy, spoon, spoony, stock, stupe, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, vacuous, wacky, witless), simplório (calvish, cuddy, cully, dotterel, gander, goose, juggins, lummox, muggins, mutt, natural, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, noddy, noodle, oaf, pigeon, prodigy, sawney, simp, simple, simple-minded, simpleton, soft, softhead, softy, spoon, spoony, sucker, weak, woodcock, zany). (various references) | |
Russian | простак (boob, coot, goose, greener, gull, innocent, juggins, lummox, man of Gotham, mug, muggins, noddy, noodle, patsy, sap, simp, simpleton, tomnoddy, wise man of Gotham). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | budala (bullhead, cockeye, cuckoo, dolt, dumdum, fool, gawk, half wit, jackass, josser, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, sap, tomfool). (various references) | |
Spanish | callejear (gallivant, pound the asphalt, stroll around). (various references) | |
Swedish | dumbom (bonehead, dunce, fool, goof, goon, idiot, innocent, jobbernowl, jolterhead, lack-brain, Looby, loon, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, poop, pumpkin-head, sap, silly, simp, simple simon, simpleton, stupid, zany). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | простак (gawky, greener, innocent, josser, juggins, lummox, muggins, ninny, ninny-hammer, noddy, pigeon, prune, simp, simple, simpleton, softy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người khờ dại (babe, blunderhead, boob, fool, goosey, greenhorn, half-wit, imbecile, juggins, nincompoop, rattle-brain, scapegrace, sheep's-head, silly, spooney, spoony), ch ng ngốc (jackass, noddy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "GABY": mangaby. (additional references) | |
Words containing "GABY": gigabyte, gigabytes, megabyte, megabytes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GABY" (pronounced ga"bē) |
| 4 | g a" b ē | Gabby. |
| 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-g-y" | |
-1 letter: aby, bag, bay, gab, gay. | |
-2 letters: ab, ag, ay, ba, by, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-g-y" | |
+1 letter: baggy, gabby. | |
+2 letters: abying, baying, bigamy, braggy, grabby. | |
+3 letters: babying, baggily, beggary, bogyman, braying, buoyage, goombay, ladybug, mangaby, pageboy. | |
+4 letters: arguably, badgerly, ballyrag, bandying, beggarly, belaying, bogeyman, boogyman, bullyrag, buoyages, burglary, embaying, galabiya, gigabyte, globally, goombays, grayback, gullably, gunnybag, hagberry, ladybugs, mangabey, mealybug, megabyte, moneybag, pageboys, tabbying, tangibly. | |
+5 letters: abidingly, agreeably, ambiguity, ballyrags, basifying, beladying, bendaying, betraying, bewraying, biography, blazingly, bodyguard, boogeyman, bracingly, brandying, budgetary, bullyrags, bypassing, galabiyas, geobotany, gigabytes, grandbaby, graybacks, graybeard, guayabera, gunnybags, laughably, mangabeys, mealybugs, megabytes, moneybags, navigably, piggyback, subagency, subwaying, vegetably, yabbering. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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