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go-by 
[goh-bahy] Pronunciation Key
[goh-bahy] Pronunciation Key –noun Informal.
| a going by without notice; an intentional passing by; snub: to give one the go-by. |
[Origin: 1605–15; n. use of v. phrase go by]
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go·by
[goh-bee] Pronunciation Key
[goh-bee] Pronunciation Key –noun, plural (especially collectively) -by, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) -bies.
) -by, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) -bies. | 1. | any small marine or freshwater fish of the family Gobiidae, often having the pelvic fins united to form a suctorial disk. |
| 2. | any fish of the closely related family Eleotridae, having the pelvic fins separate. |
[Origin: 1760–70; < L gōbius gudgeon (sp. var. of gōbiō or cōbius) < Gk kōbiós]
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| go·by
(gō'bē) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. goby or go·bies Any of numerous usually small spiny-finned fishes of the family Gobiidae, having the pelvic fins united to form a suction disk. [Latin gōbius, gudgeon, from Greek kōbios.] |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
goby
goby
kind of fish, 1769, from L. gobius, from Gk. gobios, of unknown origin.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| goby | |
noun | |
| small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker |
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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Goby
Go"by\, n.; pl. Gobies. [F. gobie, L. gobius, gobio, Gr. ? Cf. Gudgeon.] (Zo["o]l.) One of several species of small marine fishes of the genus Gobius and allied genera.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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