Bibe vs Bibb - What's the difference?
bibe | bibb |
(Ireland, Newfoundland) A type of banshee whose cry indicates someone's impending death.
* 1822 , "All Hallow Eve in Ireland", in
* 1952 , Shaw Desmond, Love by the Dark Water , page 11:
* 1992 , William Nolan and Thomas P. Power, Waterford history & Society , page 628:
* 2006 , Coralie Hughes Jensen,
As nouns the difference between bibe and bibb
is that bibe is chicken, pullet while bibb is a bibcock.bibe
English
Noun
(en noun)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."
- 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 .
- He never believed in the bibe although the people were always talking of her.
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) ----
