kibble
See also: Kibble
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Unknown; verb sense c. 1790,[1] Shropshire dialect,[2] perhaps variant of chip.[3]
Verb
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Translations
to grind coarsely
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Noun
kibble (countable and uncountable, plural kibbles)
Translations
something coarsely ground
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Etymology 2
From German Kübel (“pail”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle High German, from Old High German -chublī (in miluhchublī (“milk pail”)), from Vulgar Latin *cupia, from Latin cūpa.[4]
Noun
kibble (plural kibbles)
References
- ^ “kibble”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ 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, volumes II (J–Z), London: John Russell Smith, […], →OCLC, page 493, column 1.
- ^ Century Dictionary, “kibble etymologies”, Wordnik
- ^ “kibble”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, reproduced from Collins English Dictionary, 10th edition, London: Collins, 2010, →ISBN.
Further reading
- “kibble”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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