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gabra1
adjectivegabra (not comparable)
- ManglishSinglishnot comparablePanicky and confused.
Just poke fun only you gabra.... how to survive like that?
2001 June 4, soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet)2 more examples
Who like army. No freedom and NCOs always shout. They have loud voices. They shout only we gabra (panic).
1978 September 17, “Inside the mind of a rifleman”, in The Straits TimesIn the sports field, the nervous little boy who is drafted into the squad to make up a full team gets all “gabra” (or confused) when he receives the ball and “cocks up” the match resulting in his team’s defeat.
1986 November 18, “Slanging the message across”, in The Straits Times
Gabra2
nounGabra (plural Gabra)
- A member of an Oromo-speaking people of Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia.
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