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Bib   /bɪb/   Listen
noun
Bib  n.  
1.
A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the clothes.
2.
(Zool.) An arctic fish (Gadus luscus), allied to the cod; called also pout and whiting pout.
3.
A bibcock.


verb
Bibbe, Bib  v. t.  To drink; to tipple. (Obs.) "This miller hath... bibbed ale."


Bib  v. i.  To drink; to sip; to tipple. "He was constantly bibbing."





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"Bib" Quotes from Famous Books



... her ladyship to-day, Miss Janet," said Dance the same afternoon. "We must look out your best bib ...
— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 • Various
... about bein' under that, whatever it is. It was bein' under her thumb I couldn't abide—makin' me wear a white bonnet in the afternoons, jist as if I was an old granny, an' an apron not big enough for a baby's bib!" ...
— 'Lizbeth of the Dale • Marian Keith
... delicate rings on her forehead, and about her white shell-like ears; it is of little use for me to say how lovely was the contour of her pink-and-white neckerchief, tucked into her low plum-coloured stuff bodice, or how the linen butter-making apron, with its bib, seemed a thing to be imitated in silk by duchesses, since it fell in such charming lines, or how her brown stockings and thick-soled buckled shoes lost all that clumsiness which they must certainly have had when empty of her foot and ankle—of little use, unless you ...
— Adam Bede • George Eliot
... a tone of exemplary patience; "I have made it a rule never to take upon myself any of the duties of hospitality in my dear brother's house, ever since he married,—odd as it may seem, when we remember how he used once to sit at this very table in his little bib and tucker, whilst Isabella poured out his milk, and I cut his ...
— Peter's Mother • Mrs. Henry De La Pasture
... grandmamma, and let him have his bib and his night-cap," growled Harpour; "is he made of butter, and are you afraid of his melting, you Evson, that you make such a fuss with him? You want your lickings yourself, and shall have them if you ...
— St. Winifred's - The World of School • Frederic W. Farrar


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