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lobby
noun (plural lobbies)
an Australian freshwater crayfish, of the genus Cherax. Compare clawchie, crawchie, craydab, crayfish, jilgie, lobster, marron, yabby. [shortened form of lobster + -y, diminutive suffix]
Contributor's comments: In Tassie, we have the yabby, go yabby-ing (fishing for the yabby) and when successful have caught yabbies.
Contributor's comments: 1960s to present, in most parts of Queensland. When I first heard the term 'Yabbie" to describe lobbies, I had no idea what the speaker was talking about.
Contributor's comments: Growing up in Brisbane during the 60's and 70's a lobby was a fresh water cray while only those found in salt water were called yabbies.
Contributor's comments: My husband grew up in Bundaberg, Qld, in the 1950's & early 60's and always used the word lobby not yabbie.