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Definition of Drabby
1. sluttish [adj DRABBIER, DRABBIEST] - See also: sluttish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drabby
Literary usage of Drabby
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1890)
"Back and scapulars barred black and drabby white ; rump and upper tail-coverts
white, some of the latter externally margined and barred on the outer web ..."
2. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1896)
"... the next ones black at the base, white at the tip with black bars; nasal plumes
black; forehead drabby-brown; crown of head and nape blue-biack, ..."
3. Thomas Nast: His Period and His Pictures by Albert Bigelow Paine (1904)
"... MP, North Abbey, Who sleek as Tabby, Black, white or drabby, This mouse does
grabby, That'sall my blabby, awfully sorry but can't be helped. Ever thine. ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1861)
"At last the old House rubbed its eyes, and saw how sadly shabby It needs must
look in gabardine so weather-stained and drabby ; And thereupon it set to work ..."
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