Chib vs Crib - What's the difference?
chib | crib |
(Scotland, Geordie, slang) To shiv (stab).
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(Canada) A small raft made of timber.
To place or confine in a crib.
To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
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* Shakespeare
To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
(obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
(Indian English) To complain, to grumble
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To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
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(of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
As nouns the difference between chib and crib
is that chib is a shiv makeshift knife while crib is a baby’s bed (British and Australasian cot) with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.As verbs the difference between chib and crib
is that chib is to shiv stab while crib is to place or confine in a crib.chib
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Alternative forms
* chiv, shiv, shiveVerb
- And if they had knives too, their gang had all knives and people were going to get chibbed .
References
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crib
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Synonyms
* (holiday home) bach (qualifier)Derived terms
* crib mattress * crib sheet * crib death * crib boardVerb
(cribb)- if only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped
- Now I am cabin'd, cribbed , confined.
- I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own.
- It was very easy, Briggs said, to make a galley-slave of a boy all the half-year, and then score him up idle; and to crib two dinners a-week out of his board, and then score him up greedy; but that wasn’t going to be submitted to, he believed, was it?'' — Charles Dickens, ''Dombey and Son , 1848,
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- Who sought to make bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed.