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fabby

/ˈfæb.i/adjective

fabby is an adjective meaning “fabulous, very good, excellent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-B-B-Y, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does fabby mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    UKslangfabulous, very good, excellent

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce fabby?

  • /ˈfæb.i/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-fabby.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of fabby

  • fabbier comparative
  • fabbiest superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is fabby?

Fabby appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does fabby come from?

From fab + -y.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).