nabby
/ˈnæ.bɪ/noun
nabby is a noun meaning “A skiff used for fishing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-A-B-B-Y and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Nabby, the name). The plural of nabby is nabbies.
What does nabby mean?
noun
- 1
ScotlandA skiff used for fishing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce nabby?
- UK /ˈnæ.bɪ/
- /ˈna.bɪ/
- UK /ˈna.bi/
Nabby has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of nabby
- nabbies plural
- nabbie
- naby
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is nabby?
Nabby appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Nabby, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does nabby come from?
Of uncertain origin, but perhaps an alteration of the adjective nobby (“elegant, graceful”), on account of the appearance of such skiffs.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).