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yabby
noun
an Australian freshwater crayfish, found throughout eastern Australia and introduced into Western Australia, commonly caught for food; later applied to various other similar freshwater crayfish AUSTRALIA, 1894
From Wemba, an Australian Aboriginal language of Victoria.- YABBY–A small burrowing crawfish, found in most creeks and water-holes in Australia — Gilbert H. Lawson, A Dictionary of Australian Words and Terms, 1924
- — Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, p. 40, 1947
- [M]ostly he caught yabbies out of the mud near the edge. — Bob Ellis and Anne Brooksbank, Mad Dog Morgan, p. 49, 1976
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 98, 1977
- It was obvious from my very first day that the bream were partial to Bass yabbies, a popular bait in the Gippsland area of Victoria. — Rex Hunt, Tall Tales–and True, p. 128, 1994
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