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Definition of jabbing:
Synonyms for jabbing:
dawdler, dig, scoke, garget, drone, laggard, carrier bag, lick, paper bag, trailer, thrusting, pigeon berry, driving force, stab, punch, knife thrust, poking, drive, push, slug, jab, poke, thrust, sack, biff, lagger, clout.
Usage examples:
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Tegumai's spear was made of wood with shark's teeth at the end, and before he had caught any fish at all he accidentally broke it clean across by jabbing it down too hard on the bottom of the river.
- "Just So Stories", Rudyard Kipling. -
The cook seemed to be jabbing it into the air again and again, at least four feet short of the mark.
- "Man Overboard!", F(rancis) Marion Crawford. -
He saw MacWilliams for a moment through the smoke, jabbing at a jammed cartridge with his pen- knife, and hacking the lead away to make it slip.
- "Soldiers of Fortune", Richard Harding Davis.