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🔧 A carburettor 🍞 High in carbs
carby

carby

7.7
Containing a lot of carbs, like bread or pasta
  • adjective
  • /ˈkɑrbi/
  • Informal
translation icon : rico en carbohidratos
  • Instead of a carby pasta dish, I chose a salad for lunch.

These are like my grain carby kind of bottom of the bowl things.

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Examples

  • So if you have a carby breakfast and you go for a full fat one with a full fat yogurt, nuts, seeds and avoiding sugar and carbs.

    ZOE

  • But like overall, I'm trying to make less deeply carby choices with my meals.

  • These are like my grain carby kind of bottom of the bowl things.

    Kristen McAtee

  • She enjoys a carby snack such as bread or chips during the movie.

  • I prefer to avoid carby foods like rice and bread while dieting.

How Carbohydrate-Rich

carby
  • Informal
7.7
starchy
6 3.0

Surface Forms

carby positive

Morphology

carby = carb (transparent) = carb + y

Formed by the informal noun 'carb' plus the productive adjectival suffix '-y', clearly signalling 'high in carbohydrates' to learners who know 'carb'.

Etymology

Carby comes from the short word carb, which comes from carbohydrate, the name for foods that give quick 'energy'. So a carby food is one that contains a lot of carbohydrates.