kibble

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English[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɪbəl/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪbəl

Etymology 1[edit]

Unknown; verb sense c. 1790,[1] Shropshire dialect,[2] perhaps variant of chip[3] or derived from Etymology 2 below.

Verb[edit]

kibble (third-person singular simple present kibbles, present participle kibbling, simple past and past participle kibbled)

  1. To grind coarsely.
    kibbled oats
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Noun[edit]

kibble (countable and uncountable, plural kibbles)

  1. Something that has been kibbled, especially grain for use as animal feed.
    • 2022 January 6, Elisabetta Povoledo, “Pope Scolds Couples Who Choose Pets Over Kids”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      The pope had already signaled his kids-over-kibbles stance in a 2014 interview with the Rome daily Il Messaggero. When asked whether some in society valued pets more than children, he said that it was a reality that reflected a “sign of cultural degeneration.”
  2. Any artificial animal feed in pellet form.
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Etymology 2[edit]

From German Kübel (pail), from Middle High German kübel, kubel (bucket, bushel, measure of grain), from Old High German kubil (tub, bucket), from Proto-West Germanic *kubil, from Proto-Germanic *kub- (to be vaulted, arch), from Proto-Indo-European *gew-, *gū- (to bend, curve, arch, vault).

Alternatively, possibly from Vulgar Latin *cupia, from Latin cūpa.[4]

Noun[edit]

kibble (plural kibbles)

  1. An iron bucket used in mines for hoisting anything to the surface.

Etymology 3[edit]

Possibly from kibble (animal feed).

Noun[edit]

kibble (uncountable)

  1. (fandom slang) In the Transformers fandom, pieces of a toy or figure necessary for one mode, but appearing out of place or unnecessary in the other.

References[edit]

  1. ^ kibble”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  2. ^ 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, volume II (J–Z), London: John Russell Smith, [], →OCLC, page 493, column 1.
  3. ^ Century Dictionary, “kibble etymologies”, Wordnik
  4. ^ kibble”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, reproduced from Collins English Dictionary, 10th edition, London: Collins, 2010, →ISBN.

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