Gabriel vs Gabby - What's the difference?
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* 1629 , , Meditations upon Creed , The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 212:
* 1986 , , Gabriel's Lament , Viking (1987), ISBN 0670816566, page 20:
An archangel associated, in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, with carrying messages from God.
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A diminutive form of the male given name Gabriel.
A diminutive form of the female given names Gabrielle, Gabriella and Gabriela.
English diminutives of female given names
English diminutives of male given names
As proper nouns the difference between gabriel and gabby
is that gabriel is a given name derived from Hebrew while Gabby is a diminutive form of the male given name Gabriel.As an adjective gabby is
inclined to talk too much, especially about trivia.gabriel
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Yea, it seems to me not fit for Christian humility to call a man Gabriel'' or ''Michael , giving the names of angels to the sons of mortality.
- "I'm the only Gabriel' in the whole school," I told my father. "You don't have to whisper it from the tomb, lad. You should thank your mother and me for giving you a handle that people notice. You ought to be pleased, not down in the dumps. Backstreet ' Gabriels aren't bumped into on every corner, remember.
- Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel , whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
- And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,