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Definition: Grabby |
GrabbyAdjective1. Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: GrabbySynonyms: avaricious (adj), covetous (adj), grasping (adj), greedy (adj), prehensile (adj). (additional references) |
| 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 |
award grabby | 4 |
2003 award grabby | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "grabby"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 贪婪 (Acquisitive, Acquisitiveness, Avarice, Covetous, greed, greedy, rapacious). (various references) | |
German | gierig (avaricious, avariciously, avid, avidly, greedily, greedy, hoggish, lustful, piggishly, voracious), raffsüchtig, raffgierig (grasping, greedily, greedy, moneygrubbing). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abbygray.(various references) | |
Swedish | girig (avaricious, avid, covetous, grasping, greedy, miserly, moneygrubbing, sordid, stingy). (various references) | |
Thai | ละโมบ (คำไม่เป็นทางการ). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Grabby" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gabbay, Gabbi, garibay, garibi, Glaby, grabb, Grabbe, Gramby, Grebby, Gribsby, griby, rebby, ribby, Trabbi, Trabbie. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-g-r-y" | |
-1 letter: gabby. | |
-2 letters: baby, barb, brag, bray, gaby, garb, grab, gray. | |
-3 letters: aby, arb, bag, bar, bay, bra, gab, gar, gay, rag, ray, rya, yar. | |
-4 letters: ab, ag, ar, ay, ba, by, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-b-g-r-y" | |
+3 letters: grandbaby, yabbering. | |
+5 letters: absorbingly. | |
| 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. | |
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