kibble
See also: Kibble
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɪbəl/
- Rhymes: -ɪbəl
Etymology 1
Unknown; verb sense c. 1790,[1] Shropshire dialect,[2] perhaps variant of chip.[3]
Verb
kibble (third-person singular simple present kibbles, present participle kibbling, simple past and past participle kibbled)
Translations
Noun
kibble (countable and uncountable, plural kibbles)
Translations
Etymology 2
From German Kübel (“pail”), from Middle High German, from Old High German -chublī (in miluhchublī (“milk pail”)), from Vulgar Latin *cupia, from Latin cūpa.[4]
References
- “kibble” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
- James Orchard Halliwell (1847), “KIBBLE”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. [...] In Two Volumes (in English), volume II (J–Z), London: John Russell Smith, […], OCLC 1008510154, page 493, column 1.
- Century Dictionary, “kibble etymologies”, Wordnik
- “kibble” in Collins English Dictionary, 10th edition, London: Collins, 2010, →ISBN; reproduced on Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Further reading
- kibble in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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