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bib

See also: Bib and BIB

English

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A baby wearing a bib (1) while being fed
 
The bib of an apron (5)
 
A runner wearing a bib (3) with the number 0798
 
Football players wearing red bibs (4) during a match

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (US):(file)
  • IPA(key): /bɪb/
  • Rhymes: -ɪb

Etymology 1

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Originally verb sense “drink heartily”, from Middle English bibben, either from Latin bibō (“I drink”) or of imitative origin. Noun sense (clothing) presumably either because worn while drinking, or because the clothing itself “drinks up” spills.[1]

Noun

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bib (plural bibs)

  1. An item of clothing for people (especially babies) tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating.
  2. Similar items of clothing such as the Chinese dudou and Vietnamese yem.
  3. (sports) A rectangular piece of material, carrying a bib number, worn as identification by entrants in a race.
  4. (sports) A colourful polyester or plastic vest worn over one's clothes, usually to mark one's team during group activities.
    Synonym: pinny
  5. The upper part of an apron or overalls.
  6. (cycling) Ellipsis of bib short.
  7. A patch of colour around an animal's upper breast and throat.
    • 1950, Arthur Cleveland Bent, Life Histories of North American Wagtails, Shrikes, Vireos, and their Allies:
      In summer the whole throat and breast are black, but in winter plumage the throat is white bounded by a horseshoe-shaped black bib.
    • 2011, Arthur Peacock, Gettysburg the Cat, page 22:
      He don't look anything like the captain. This here cat has got a nice thick black coat of fur with a nice white bib and white feet.
  8. A north Atlantic fish (Trisopterus luscus), allied to the cod.
    Synonym: pouting
  9. A bibb (bibcock).
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Translations
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Trisopterus luscus — see pouting
bibcock — see bibcock

Verb

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bib (third-person singular simple present bibs, present participle bibbing, simple past and past participle bibbed)

  1. (transitive) To dress (somebody) in a bib.
    • 1990, Don Aslett, Don Aslett's Stain-buster's Bible: The Complete Guide to Spot Removal:
      Wise women use them, but new fathers seldom seem to understand that one minute bibbing baby saves who knows how long swabbing, finding clean clothes, changing, and coddling later — not to mention laundry time.
    • 2011, Dawn Atkins, The Baby Connection, page 101:
      Mel got Daniel into his chair and bibbed him up.
  2. (intransitive, archaic) To drink heartily; to tipple.
Translations
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to drink heavily — see tipple
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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bib (third-person singular simple present bibs, present participle bibbing, simple past and past participle bibbed)

  1. (informal) To beep (e.g. a car horn).

Further reading

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References

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  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “bib”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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Anagrams

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Clipping of bibliotheek.

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Noun

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bib f (uncountable)

  1. (informal, Belgium) library
    Synonyms: bibliotheek, (Netherlands) bieb

Nyunga

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Noun

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bib

  1. breast

References

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  • 1992, Rose Whitehurst, Noongar Dictionary, Noongar Language and Culture Centre (Bunbury, Western Australia)

Seychellois Creole

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Etymology

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From Malagasy biby (“animal”).

Noun

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bib

  1. spider

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  • Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

Volapük

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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bib (nominative plural bibs)

  1. bible, Bible

Declension

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declension of bib
singular plural
nominative bib bibs
genitive biba bibas
dative bibe bibes
accusative bibi bibis
vocative 1 o bib! o bibs!
predicative 2 bibu bibus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

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Welsh

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Noun

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bib

  1. Soft mutation of pib (“pipe”).

Mutation

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
pib bib mhib phib
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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