Ichabbie

English

Etymology

Blend of Ichabod +‎ Abbie.

Proper noun

Ichabbie

1. (fandom slang) The ship of characters Ichabod Crane and Abbie Mills from the television series Sleepy Hollow.
   • 2014 October 2, Laura Prudom, “'Sleepy Hollow' Season 2: Tom Mison on 'Ichabbie,' Jealousy and the Battle with War”, in The Niles Bugle, page 23:

     Much has been made of the sexual tension between "Ichabbie."

   • 2017, Evan Jeremy Johnson, "But The Crowd Was Not Satisfied: Blackface Minstrelsy And Lynching As Fandoms Of The Remediated Black Body", thesis submitted to the University of Texas at Dallas, page 78:

     Many fan blog posts argued that writers of Sleepy Hollow betrayed its Ichabbie shippers through their refusal to fully consummate the relationship.

   • 2020, Karen J. Tuthill-Jones, "Brains, Brawn, and Beguilement: Major Female Characters on FOX's Sleepy Hollow, in Cinematic Women, From Objecthood to Heroism: Essays on Female Gender (ed. Lisa V. Mazey), page 99:

     Fans who had enjoyed the dynamic of Abbie and Crane did not appreciate the re-introduction of Katrina, as she stifled their relationship in a number of ways, breaking up the Ichabbie dynamic for marital spats.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ichabbie.