dabbies, verb transitive
- Origin:
- Etymology unknown.
In the language of children: a word which claims an object or privilege for the speaker.
- Note:
- Although seldom recorded, the word has been in colloquial use since before 1940, and is remembered in use in Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha) c1955.
1994 P. Hayes in Daily Dispatch 27 Oct. 20Dabbies — meaning ‘I want something’ — was in common use at that time (sc. the 1930s).
a word which claims an object or privilege for the speaker.
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