ribbedebie
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
According to linguist Ruud Hendrickx from French à bride abattue.[1]
According to the Vlaams woordenboek possibly from thieves' cant rip de bie ("gone the way").[2]
Pronunciation edit
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Adjective edit
ribbedebie (used only predicatively, not comparable)
- (colloquial, Belgium) disappeared, gone, having left
References edit
- ^ Ruud Hendrickx (1999) “Weg ermee!”, in VRT Taal[1] (in Dutch)
- ^ “ribbedebie”, in Het Vlaams woordenboek (in Dutch), 2022 September 12 (last accessed)