yabby
1
9.8
A small animal like a tiny crayfish that lives in Australian rivers and creeks
- noun
- Australian
:
yabby
- Hey, have we still got those yabby traps?
- yabby trap
Examples
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We went to the river to catch yabbies with a trap we made ourselves.
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- For the Yabby Creek tennis tournament.
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During our picnic, we spotted a yabby scuttling along the creek bed.
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The fisherman showed us how to set a yabby trap in shallow water.
Synonyms
crayfish
vsyabby
6
3.0
A small fresh water animal like a tiny lobster with claws that lives in rivers and streams
includes Australian and coastal habitats beyond just freshwater rivers
3
8.2
A small freshwater animal like a tiny lobster that lives in creeks
is the Australian term and also occurs in coastal as well as river habitats
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Yabby probably comes from an Aboriginal word yabi meaning 'freshwater crayfish'. So a yabby is a small river 'crayfish' or 'lake lobster', which is why the word names this little crustacean today.