warby
See also: Warby
English edit
Etymology edit
Probably from warb + -y, although the former is attested a few years later.[1][2]
Adjective edit
warby (comparative warbier, superlative warbiest)
- (Australia, slang, derogatory, dated) Unkempt, disreputable.
- 1941, Kylie Tennant, The Battlers, Pymble, N.S.W.: Angus & Robertson, published 1994, →ISBN, page 260:
- 'Of all the warby ideas,' he said, and in the spite of the rain and the prospect of a wet camp, in spite of everything, he was smiling at her, 'the warbiest is you going on your own. I guess Jimmy and me can give you a lift down to Orion for the cherry-pickin'. What say, Jimmy?'
References edit
- ^ “warby, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- ^ Jonathon Green (2024) “warby adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
