Citations:jibbon

English citations of jibbon

a spring onion

• 1955, Rhys Davies, The Collected Stories of Rhys Davies:

  Jibbons - the son of old Pugh Jibbons, so called because he always declared that jibbons (that being the local name for spring onions) cured every common ailment in man - leaned against the cart waiting for her. This was almost a […]

• 2011, Tony Bianchi, Daniel's Beetles,

  [page 12:] Tea in the garden. A birthday tea. Daniel is kneeling on the paved path which stretches from the back of the house to the high hedge separating the Robsons’ garden from its neighbour. Behind him is the lawn with its table and chairs. In front, running the length of the path, is a narrow border filled with clusters of fuchsia, geranium and phlox. Near the hedge there is also a small bed of jibbons which Daniel’s mother grows to put in salads and sandwiches.

  [page 212:] ‘Ah! The jibbons! Yes, of course. Mam, the patch of jibbons, over in the far corner. Ha! You’ve got a good memory. Mam, I’d never have remembered that, no, never, not the jibbons.’ Having retrieved, between us, this little scrap of memory (if such it was, for I had no way of telling) I proceeded to embroider onto it incidental details of how I would play there, by the jibbons, how I would hunt for insects amongst the flowers, under the stones, how I would talk to Robert next door through the hedge.

• 2017 January 31, Emma Kennedy, Shoes for Anthony: A Novel, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 11:

  'A slice of bread and ... get me some jibbons from the veg box, Ant.' I slid backwards from the table and pulled out two long spring onions from a tangle of muddied home-grown vegetables. I passed them up to Mam, who quickly took her […]

• 2011 October 21, Katherine Knight, Spuds, Spam and Eating For Victory: Rationing in the Second World War, The History Press, →ISBN, page 18:

  ... onions which chilled the throat (jibbons we called them) and deep purple flesh of beetroot fleetingly reminding us of meat. In autumn we finished our meal with blackberry pudding or wimberry pie, whichever fruit our eager indigo fingers […]

• 1990, Nikolas Coupland, Alan Richard Thomas, English in Wales: Diversity, Conflict, and Change, Multilingual Matters, →ISBN, page 112:

  ... jibbon (spring onion). The nearest Wright (1905a) has to it is gibble (which like jibbon is obviously a descendant through Old French from Latin cepa) with a record of that form in Gm as 'seaside plantain' which I was unable to […]