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yabbied

yabbied is the simple past and past participle of yabby.

Meaning of yabby

Verb (1)

yabby (third-person singular simple present yabbies, present participle yabbying, simple past and past participle yabbied)

  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.2005, F. Mathews, editor, Reinhabiting Reality: Towards a Recovery of Culture, page 156

Verb (2)

yabby (third-person singular simple present yabbies, present participle yabbying, simple past and past participle 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.2019, J. Collins, Fela: Katakuta Notes, page 160

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Questions about yabbied

What is yabbied the simple past and past participle of?
Yabbied is the simple past and past participle of yabby.

Words near yabbied in the dictionary

  1. yabbered
  2. yabbering
  3. yabbers
  4. yabbi
  5. yabbie
  6. yabbied
  7. yabbies
  8. yabbing
  9. yabbis
  10. yabble
  11. yabbled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yabbied (page history and authors); yabby (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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