YABBY

Etymology

Noun

yabby (plural yabbies)

(AU) A freshwater Australian crayfish of the genus Cherax, especially Cherax destructor.

(Australia) A type of ghost shrimp of the infraorder Thalassinidea.

Verb

yabby (third-person singular simple present yabbies, present participle yabbying, simple past and past participle yabbied)

(intransitive) To search for yabbies.

Source: Wiktionary



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5 May 2025

UNEXPLOITED

(adjective) not developed, improved, exploited or used; “vast unexploited (or undeveloped) natural resources”; “taxes on undeveloped lots are low”


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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