stabbity

stabbity
 n.— «“If you get into hand-to-hand combat,” said the sergeant, tying a carrot on to the end of the broomstick, “just poke the enemy with this and say ‘Stabbity, stabbity, stab!’”» —“Re: “a Million Laughs”” by Firewalker Usenet: rec.scuba Sept. 27, 2000. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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