A fabby week for my music! EIGHT, count 'em EIGHT TOP TEN Charts. The SEVENTH chart of EIGHT! 🔥 Thanks to Radio Candy Indie Show and all the listeners. My song "YOUR WORDS ARE LIES" at NUMERO QUATRO! Truly awesome!…
Hope you guys have a fabby day too! 💜🌻🥰
Fabby is a casual British slang intensifier meaning fabulous, great, or excellent. It's a cheerful, slightly effusive word — the kind you'd hear from an enthusiastic friend rather than in formal speech. Its register is informal, warm, and upbeat, often used to express genuine delight or approval. Particularly associated with British regional speech, especially in the north of England, it carries a slightly retro, good-natured energy. Think of it as a more playful cousin to 'fab', itself short for 'fabulous'.
She came back from the salon looking absolutely fabby — best haircut she'd had in years.
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(slang, British) fabulous, very good, excellent.
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Fabby means: Fabby is a casual British slang intensifier meaning fabulous, great, or excellent. It's a cheerful, slightly effusive word - the kind you'd hear from an enthusiastic friend rather than in formal. It is informal slang, fine in casual speech but not suited to formal contexts. There is no real cause for parental concern; it is descriptive vocabulary rather than risky behaviour. As a place or proper-name reference it is purely descriptive.
Slang is read by different audiences for very different reasons. The For parents view re-explains the term in plain, non-judgemental language so a caregiver can understand what their child means without needing the surrounding subculture. The For English learners view focuses on register (when it's safe to use), formal alternatives, and common mistakes — what a textbook won't teach you.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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