Cribbed vs Dribbed - What's the difference?
cribbed | dribbed |
Of or pertaining to a crib, or things in a crib.
(crib)
(drib)
To cut off; chop off.
To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.
To entice step by step.
* Dryden
To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.
* Dryden
(archery) To shoot directly at short range.
(archery) To shoot at a mark at short range.
(archery) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
To beat; thrash; drub.
To scold.
To strike another player's marble when playing from the trigger.
As verbs the difference between cribbed and dribbed
is that cribbed is (crib) while dribbed is (drib).As an adjective cribbed
is of or pertaining to a crib, or things in a crib.cribbed
English
Adjective
(head)- The cribbed baby was quite content.
Verb
(head)dribbed
English
Verb
(head)drib
English
Etymology 1
From dialectal English drib (compare also drub), a variant from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(dribb)- With daily lies she dribs thee into cost.
- He who drives their bargain dribs a part.
- (Sir Philip Sidney)