Bib vs Fib - What's the difference?
bib | fib |
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
* 2011 , Arthur Peacock, Gettysburg the Cat (page 22)
An arctic fish (Gadus luscus ), allied to the cod; the pout.
A bibcock.
(archaic) To drink heartily; to tipple.
English palindromes
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(informal) A , especially one that is more or less inconsequential.
* Henry James
To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.
As nouns the difference between bib and fib
is that bib is an item of clothing for babies tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating while fib is a lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential.As verbs the difference between bib and fib
is that bib is to drink heartily; to tipple while fib is to lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.bib
English
Noun
(en noun)- In summer the whole throat and breast are black, but in winter plumage the throat is white bounded by a horseshoe-shaped black bib .
- 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.
Derived terms
* best bib and tuckerVerb
(bibb)- He was constantly bibbing . — Locke.
References
fib
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Etymology 1
Probably from fable''; compare ''fibble-fabble (nonsense).Noun
(en noun)- They are very serious; they don't tell fibs .