Citations:bibble

English citations of bibble

/ˈbɪbəl/ (Midlands, especially Staffordshire) : a pebble

1895, Pinnock, Blk. Cy. Ann. [Black Country Annual?]:
He throwed at him an hit him wi a bibble.

/ˈbɪbəl/ (spoken e.g. 2:47 "a little bibble of complexity holding out against a universe of increasing entropy") : a bit

1994, Nicholas Salaman, The Garden of Earthly Delights, →ISBN:
She burst into his studio one afternoon as the light failed, in disarray, a tear freezing on her cheek, her lips trembling and a little bibble of moisture working back and forth in her nostril as she breathed.
1995, Jerome Charyn, The Tar Baby, Dalkey Archive Press, →ISBN, page 79:
[…] punish Glori because she prefers to rinse its cotton dress at home, in the toilet bowl? This time I wrapped the doll in corduroy before I chucked it in. "No bleach, Glori. Just a bibble of soap."
2020 July 2, Chloë Heuch, Too Dark to See, Firefly Press, →ISBN:
I found an old black jumper, but it is ancient and has bibbles of fluff all over it. As we walk from the car to the church entrance, a bus changes gear at the brow of the hill, slowing down. I glance up. It is full of younger pupils […]

1904, Frederic Stewart Isham, Black Friday, page 66:
The congregation poured out, with clatter and chatter — a bibble of praise, and a babble of dispraise — an animated stream of loquaciousness and color that divided and subdivided itself into no less mercurial streamlets which […]
1915, Boot and Shoe Recorder, page 127:
A little bunk, a little bibble, We bait our hook and get a nibble, Now, if we didn't, I should scribble.
1949, William Kenneth Richmond, Saga of Swans and Harrier Over the Fen:
All round him a bibble of bills and scrunch of grass. In half an hour the water had poured away and left the wildfowl free, waders and all, to pick their ways at will across the matted silt. Somehow it was not the same once the tide […]