yabby

[ yab-ee ]

noun
  1. a small Australian crayfish, of the genus Cherax, inhabiting streams and water holes.

Origin of yabby

1
First recorded in 1890–95; from Wergaia (an Australian Aboriginal language spoken around Wimmera, Victoria) yabij

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How to use yabby in a sentence

  • There, too, we used to sit amid the evening mosquitoes, and angle for black-fish and "yabbies."

British Dictionary definitions for yabby

yabby

nounplural -bies
  1. a small freshwater crayfish of the genus Cherax, esp C. destructor

  2. Also called: nipper a marine prawn used as bait

verb-bies, -bying or -bied
  1. (intr) to go out to catch yabbies

Origin of yabby

1
from a native Australian language

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