stabbiest

Adjective

stabby (comparative stabbier, superlative stabbiest)

1. Having one or more sharp points.
   • At any rate there flourished by the curbing, sure enough, a wide and very stabby cactus garden, extending Tartar hospitality.1935, The American Legion Monthly, volume 19, page 54
2. Quick and thrusting.
   • By means of a clever arrangement of springs down below that responded to an electric current, the whole mechanism was able to move up and down and backward and forward in short stabby jerks that were supposed to stir up your gizzard in practically the same way as the motion of a horse.1921, Francis Hackett, The Invisible Censor, B. W. Huebsch, Inc
3. Sudden and acute.
   • She saw a young couple go past, embarrassed and blushing under showers of rice and riotously convoyed by what clearly was an East Side bridal party. This she saw with a quick darting pang—not a pang of envy exactly, nor yet of jealousy; just a sharp, stabby, little sort of pang, that's all.1933, Irvin S[hrewsbury] Cobb, “Pure and Simple”, in One Way to Stop a Panic, New York, N.Y.: Laugh Club, →OCLC, page 250
4. Staccato.
   • The guitar player is playing kind of melodic licks, and the horns are stabby, accent parts.1999 August 20, “Mandorico turns from ska to Latin rock”, in Sarasota Herald-Tribune
5. Penetrating and hostile.
   • Her eyes are the stabby kind, worse than long hatpins. Honest, after one glance I felt like I was bein' held up on a fork.1917, Sewell Ford, chapter VIII, in Wilt Thou Torchy, Grosset & Dunlap
6. (slang) Acting in a violent and/or deranged manner.

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