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Bile vs Bibe - What's the difference?

bile | bibe |

As an adverb bile

is even.

As a noun bibe is

chicken, pullet.

bile

English

(wikipedia bile)

Etymology 1

Mid 16th century, via (etyl), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (biochemistry) A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
  • bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
  • Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1890, author=Walter Scott, title=The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I shall tire of my Journal if it is to contain nothing but biles and plasters and unguents. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1616, author=Alexander Roberts, title=A Treatise of Witchcraft, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He spake out of the Pythonesse'', ''Act. 16. 17.'' brought downe fire from heauen, and consumed ''Iobs sheepe 7000. and his seruants, raised a storme, strooke the house wherein his sonnes and daughters feasted with their elder brother, smote the foure corners of it, with the ruine whereof they all were destroyed, and perished: and ouerspread the body of that holy Saint their father with botches[t] and biles from the sole of his foot to the crowne of his head. }}
    Synonyms
    * gall
    Derived terms
    * bile duct * biliary * biliary tract * bilirubin * bilious * atrabilious * black bile * yellow bile

    Etymology 2

    Akin to (etyl) buil and (etyl) Beule.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A boil (kind of swelling).
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    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) ----