Talk:gaby

--Connel MacKenzie 23:41, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Merriam Webster lists it as meaning simpleton, but only as an English dialect. --Dmol 09:15, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

OED says "originally in northern and midland dialects" and doubts the Icelandic etymology since "the dial. forms hardly favour this". It cites it from 1796 - 1885. I thought I'd heard it in the 1970s in Scotland or maybe Cumbria, but I'm not at all certain. --Enginear 20:16, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure I've heard my Scottish grandmother use it. I always thought it meant talkative. I will mark it as dialectical and remove the rfv, but not rfvpassed.