CABBY
What does "CABBY" mean?
An informal word for a taxicab driver.
Meanings
- A person who drives a taxi for hire. The cabby took the back streets to beat the traffic. informal
Did you know?
- To become a licensed London cabby you must pass 'The Knowledge', memorizing the city's thousands of streets within six miles of Charing Cross - a feat shown to physically enlarge drivers' hippocampi.
Word origin
An informal diminutive of 'cab', which is itself a shortening of 'cabriolet' (a light two-wheeled carriage, from French) plus the familiar '-y' suffix.
Remember it
CABBY = CAB + BY, the driver who takes you BY in a CAB.
A little poem
Headlights, a wet curb-
the city's whole map folded
behind two known eyes.
haiku
Wordplay
- I asked the cabby if he knew a shortcut. He said he knew them all - that was the whole job.
What it teaches
Deep mastery of a small territory beats shallow knowledge of everywhere.
Quick facts
What does CABBY mean?
An informal word for a taxicab driver.
Is CABBY a valid word?
Yes — CABBY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is CABBY?
CABBY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does CABBY come from?
An informal diminutive of 'cab', which is itself a shortening of 'cabriolet' (a light two-wheeled carriage, from French) plus the familiar '-y' suffix.
What can CABBY teach us?
Deep mastery of a small territory beats shallow knowledge of everywhere.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.