See yabby on Wiktionary
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Zagar, Your Feet Take You To Where Your Heart Is, page 90:", "text": "\"Can we go yabbying?\" \"It'll be too hot,\" I say. \"It's never too hot for yabbying.\" We are creating Christmas memories for our son.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To search, forage, or fish for yabbies." ], "id": "en-yabby-en-verb-ekpsBBrj", "raw_glosses": [ "(intransitive) To search, forage, or fish for yabbies." ], "tags": [ "intransitive" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈjæb.i/" }, { "audio": "en-au-yabby.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/46/En-au-yabby.ogg/En-au-yabby.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/En-au-yabby.ogg" }, { "rhymes": "-æbi" } ], "synonyms": [ { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "word": "yabbie" } ], "wikipedia": [ "yabby" ], "word": "yabby" } { "etymology_number": 2, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en" }, "expansion": "Unknown", "name": "unk" } ], "etymology_text": "Unknown.", "forms": [ { "form": "yabbies", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "yabbying", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "yabbied", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "yabbied", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "yabby (third-person singular simple present yabbies, present participle yabbying, simple past and past participle yabbied)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "Nigerian English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "_dis": "41 38 10 11", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "39 36 14 12", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "35 36 16 12", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "30 34 23 13", "kind": "lifeform", "langcode": "en", "name": "Astacideans", "orig": "en:Astacideans", "parents": [ "Crustaceans", "Decapods", "Arthropods", "Animals", "Lifeforms", "All topics", "Life", "Fundamental", "Nature" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2019, J. Collins, Fela: Katakuta Notes, page 160:", "text": "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.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To show disrespect by denouncing or insulting; to diss." ], "id": "en-yabby-en-verb-vFvVybkk", "links": [ [ "diss", "diss" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive, Nigeria, slang) To show disrespect by denouncing or insulting; to diss." ], "related": [ { "word": "yab" }, { "word": "yabbi" } ], "tags": [ "Nigeria", "slang", "transitive" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈjæb.i/" }, { "audio": "en-au-yabby.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/46/En-au-yabby.ogg/En-au-yabby.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/En-au-yabby.ogg" }, { "rhymes": "-æbi" } ], "word": "yabby" }
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