Tube vs Bibe - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between tube and bibe

is that tube is anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape while bibe is a type of banshee whose cry indicates someone's impending death.

As a verb tube

is to make or use tubes.

As a proper noun Tube

is the London Underground.

tube

English

(wikipedia tube)

Noun

(en noun)

Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.

*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window […], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.

An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semi-liquid substances.

The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube .)

*1995 , Sue Butler, Lonely Planet Australian Phrasebook: Language Survival Kit

*:Tinnie: a tin of beer — also called a tube .

*2002 , Andrew Swaffer, Katrina O'Brien, Darroch Donald, Footprint Australia Handbook: The Travel Guide'' [text repeated in ''Footprint West Coast Australia Handbook (2003)]

*:Beer is also available from bottleshops (or bottle-o's) in cases (or 'slabs') of 24-36 cans (‘tinnies' or ‘tubes' ) or bottles (‘stubbies') of 375ml each.

*2004 , Paul Matthew St. Pierre, Portrait of the Artist as Australian: L'Oeuvre Bizarre de Barry Humphries

*:That Humphries should imply that, in the Foster's ads, Hogan's ocker appropriated McKenzie's discourse (specifically the idiom "crack an ice-cold tube ") reinforces my contention.

(lb) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.

A television. Also, derisively, boob tube. British: telly.

Usage notes

Use for beer can was popularised in UK by a long-running series of advertisements for Foster's lager, where Paul Hogan used a phrase "crack an ice-cold tube" previously associated with Barry Humphries' character Barry McKenzie. (For discussion of this see Paul Matthew St. Pierre's book cited above.)

Hyponyms

* See also

Derived terms

* buckytube * cathode ray tube * Fallopian tube * inner tube * intubate * knob-and-tube * nanotube * picture tube * test tube * tubal * tubing * tuboplasty * tubular * vacuum tube

Verb

To make or use tubes

She tubes lipstick.

They tubed down the Colorado River.

Anagrams

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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) ----