yabby
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈjæb.i/
yabby (plural yabbies)
- (AU) A freshwater Australian crayfish of the genus Cherax, especially Cherax destructor.
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 386:
- Having arrived at night I can speak with some authority on the desolate feeling the road produces: the white fire-scarred trunks, the unsettling vision of yabbies moving from one side of the road to the other.
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 386:
- (Australia) A type of ghost shrimp of the infraorder Thalassinidea.
yabby (yabbies, present participle yabbying; past and past participle yabbied)
- (intransitive) To search for yabbies.
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