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yabby¹

  • /ˈjæb.i/

Rhymes with -æbi

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Wemba-Wemba yabij.

noun yabbies · yabbie

  1. Australia Any of various freshwater crayfish, typically of the genus Cherax, valued as food, especially Cherax destructor of southeastern Australia. Having arrived at night I can speak with some authority on the desolate feeling the road produces: the white fire-scarred trunks, the unsettling vision of yabbies moving from one side of the road to the other.

    Similar: crawbob

  2. Australia A species of marine ghost shrimp, Trypaea australiensis, widely harvested by recreational anglers as bait; a nipper. Callianassa australiensis is known in southern New South Wales as the "ghost-nipper" (Dakin, Bennett and Pope, 1952), and in northern New South Wales and Queensland as the "yabby" (a word of aboriginal origin also applied to freshwater crayfish).

Similar: crawchie, ghost nipper

verb yabbies · yabbying · yabbied · yabbie

  1. intransitive To search, forage, or fish for yabbies. He would have known the Merri well, given the affinity between boys and creeks, and he probably fished and yabbied there.

yabby²

  • /ˈjæb.i/

Rhymes with -æbi

Where it comes from

Unknown.

verb yabbies · yabbying · yabbied

  1. Nigeria, slang, transitive To show disrespect by denouncing or insulting; to diss. So Abiola invite Fela to his house for a big party, and Fela have to go as they are family—even though Fela had yabbied Abiola in his song "ITT" [International Thief Thief]. And it's true, Abiola duped the country for that money—everybody knows it.

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Similar: crawchie, ghost nipper

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@misc{yabby_2026,
  title = {yabby},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/yabby},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}