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gaby
/ˈɡæbi/
name 2noun 1
Collocations
3ADJ.
fat, fellow
VERB + GABY
blockheaded, made
GABY + NOUN
loon, myself
Definitions
name
1
A female given name from French.
name
1
A surname from French.
noun
1
A stupid, foolish person; a simpleton; a dunce.
I daresay I made a gaby of myself to the world
His wrath, then, was proportionately violent when he was aware of two boys, who stopped close by him, and one of whom, a fat gaby of a fellow, pointed at him and called him "Young mammy-sick!"
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I daresay I made a gaby of myself to the world
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His wrath, then, was proportionately violent when he was aware of two boys, who stopped close by him, and one of whom, a fat gaby of a fellow, pointed at him and called him "Young mammy-sick!"
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"[Y]ou're a jobbernowl and a doodle, a maundering mooncalf and a blockheaded numps, a gaby and a loon; you're a Hatter!" I shrieked the last epithet.
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