Definitions for goby

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goby go·by

Spelling: [goh-bee]

IPA: /ˈgoʊ bi/

Goby is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in goby (bgoy).

Definitions for goby

noun

1. any small marine or freshwater fish of the family Gobiidae, often having the pelvic fins united to form a suctorial disk.
2. any fish of the closely related family Eleotridae, having the pelvic fins separate.
3. a going by without notice; an intentional passing by; snub:

Origin of goby

1760-70; Latin gōbius gudgeon (spelling variant of gōbiō or cōbius) Greek kōbiós

Examples for goby

Drag′onet, a little dragon: a genus of fishes of the goby family; Drag′on-fly, an insect with a long body and brilliant colours.

Nature seems to have made the goby in one of her most freakish moods.

In goby's train was his fervent admirer and inseparable young friend, Clarence Hoby.

He hastened into the carriage-path, following the footprints made by the trio from goby House.

In the Shat-el-Arab, which is wholly within the influence of the tides, there is a species of goby, which is amphibious.