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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
grabby is an adjective meaning "immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth". It carries one recorded sense.
immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
“they are avaricious and will do anything for money”
“casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields”
“a grasping old miser”
“grasping commercialism”
“greedy for money and power”
“grew richer and greedier”
“prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for grabby come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.