gaby

name

1. A female given name from French.
2. A surname from French.

noun

1. (UK, regional)A stupid, foolish person; a simpleton; a dunce.

   “I daresay I made a gaby of myself to the world”

   “His wrath, then, was proportionately violent when he was aware of two boys, who stopped close by him, and one of whom, a fat gaby of a fellow, pointed at him and called him "Young mammy-sick!"”

   “"[Y]ou're a jobbernowl and a doodle, a maundering mooncalf and a blockheaded numps, a gaby and a loon; you're a Hatter!" I shrieked the last epithet.”

   “"You pair of gabeys!" she exclaimed. "You'll see him before the night's out."”