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Bib vs Bibe - What's the difference?

bib | bibe |

As nouns the difference between bib and bibe

is that bib is an item of clothing for babies tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating while bibe is chicken, pullet.

As a verb bib

is (archaic) to drink heartily; to tipple.

bib

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An item of clothing for babies tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating.
  • A rectangular piece of material, carrying a bib number, worn as identification by entrants in a race
  • The upper part of an apron or overalls.
  • 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.
  • An arctic fish (Gadus luscus ), allied to the cod; the pout.
  • A bibcock.

    • Derived terms

    * best bib and tucker

    Verb

    (bibb)
  • (archaic) To drink heartily; to tipple.
    • He was constantly bibbing . — Locke.

    Related terms

    * bibber * bibble

    References

    English palindromes ----

    bibe

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Ireland, Newfoundland) A type of banshee whose cry indicates someone's impending death.
  • * 1822 , "All Hallow Eve in Ireland", in Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist , volume IX, No XV, page 257:
    • "... But when Jack lies on his low death-bed, with the clammy dews standing on his brow, the moaning bibe combing her yellow locks, and singing the death-wail at his casement, then will this, and all poor Delaney's other actions, appear to his darkening eye in their true colours."
  • * 1952 , Shaw Desmond, Love by the Dark Water , page 11:
    • Down there where the Bibe' had her hole out of which she would howl to the rising moon and to the fairy peoples that would be peeping out at the new moon only to withdraw their small heads as they heard the cry of the ' Bibe .
  • * 1992 , William Nolan and Thomas P. Power, Waterford history & Society , page 628:
    • He never believed in the bibe although the people were always talking of her.
  • * 2006 , Coralie Hughes Jensen, Lety's Gift :
    • Sophie's face grew serious. "Not the bibe . She comes when we dies."

    References

    * " bibe" in Story et al. Dictionary of Newfoundland English Second Edition with supplement, (Toronto, 1990) ----