abie

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/ˈeɪbi/

proper noun

A diminutive of the male given name Abraham, from Hebrew.

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Meanings

abie1

verb
  1. obsoleteObsolete form of aby.

    With cunning wordes tempted by chaſtity? / Thou ſhalt abie for both your treacheries.

    c. 1592, attributed to Thomas Kyd, “The Tragedy of Soliman and Preseda.”, in The Origin of the English Drama, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, published 1773, page 275
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    But patience perforce he muſt abie, / What fortune and his fate on him will lay, / Fond is the feare, that findes no remedie;

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 543

    For if thou doſt intend / Neuer ſo little ſhew of loue to her, / Thou ſhalt abie it.

    1600, VVilliam Shakeſpeare [i.e. William Shakespeare], A Midſommer nights dreame. […], […] Iames Roberts, page 47

Abie2

proper noun
  1. A diminutive of the male given name Abraham, from Hebrew.

Origin

From Abe + -ie.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with abie

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APA

abie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/abie

MLA

“abie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/abie. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “abie,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/abie.

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