kibble

See also: Kibble

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɪbəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɪbəl

Etymology 1

Unknown; verb sense c. 1790, Shropshire dialect, perhaps variant of chip or derived from Etymology 2 below.

Verb

kibble (third-person singular simple present kibbles, present participle kibbling, simple past and past participle kibbled)

1. To grind coarsely.

   kibbled oats

Translations

to grind coarsely

• Bulgarian: меля на едро (melja na edro)
• Finnish: rouhia (fi)
• French: concasser (fr)
• German: schroten (de)
• Russian: дроби́ть (ru) n (drobítʹ)

Noun

kibble (countable and uncountable, plural kibbles)

1. Something that has been kibbled, especially grain for use as animal feed.
   • 2022 January 6, Elisabetta Povoledo, “Pope Scolds Couples Who Choose Pets Over Kids”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The pope had already signaled his kids-over-kibbles stance in a 2014 interview with the Rome daily Il Messaggero. When asked whether some in society valued pets more than children, he said that it was a reality that reflected a “sign of cultural degeneration.”

2. Any artificial animal feed in pellet form.

Translations

something coarsely ground

• Finnish: rouhe (fi)
• German: Trockenfutter (de) n, Schrot (de) m or n
• Italian: granella (it) f

animal feed

• French: croquette (fr)
• Italian: croccantino (it), crocchetta (it)
• Spanish: pienso (es) m, galletita f

Etymology 2

From German Kübel (“pail”), from Middle High German kübel, kubel (“bucket, bushel, measure of grain”), from Old High German kubil (“tub, bucket”), from Proto-West Germanic *kubil, from Proto-Germanic *kub- (“to be vaulted, arch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew-, *gū- (“to bend, curve, arch, vault”).

Alternatively, possibly from Vulgar Latin *cupia, from Latin cūpa.

Noun

kibble (plural kibbles)

1. An iron bucket used in mines for hoisting anything to the surface.

Etymology 3

Noun

kibble (plural kibbles)

1. (historical) A mallet used in the game of trap ball.

Etymology 4

Possibly from kibble (“animal feed”).

Noun

kibble (uncountable)

1. (fandom slang) In the Transformers fandom, pieces of a toy or figure necessary for one mode, but appearing out of place or unnecessary in the other.

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “kibble”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Paronyms

• kipple