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Yabby
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- 1 Any of various freshwater crayfish, typically of the genus Cherax, valued as food, especially Cherax destructor of southeastern Australia. 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."
- 2 A species of marine ghost shrimp, Trypaea australiensis, widely harvested by recreational anglers as bait; a nipper. Australia
"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)."
- 1 To search, forage, or fish for yabbies. intransitive
"He would have known the Merri well, given the affinity between boys and creeks, and he probably fished and yabbied there."
- 2 To show disrespect by denouncing or insulting; to diss. Nigeria, slang, transitive
"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."
Etymology
Borrowed from Wemba-Wemba yabij.
Borrowed from Wemba-Wemba yabij.
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