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Small fragments or crumbs produced by nibbling or gnawing; tiny pieces left after something has been chewed, crumbled, or worn away, especially as by mice or vermin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Midlands, archaic, dialectal, plural, plural-only
Qualifier: chiefly Buckinghamshire
Examples
- The mice have chimbled the cheese all to pieces, and left nothing but the chimblings
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: chumblings, nibblings, crumbs
Antonyms: none provided
(by extension, rare, family usage) Small scraps or morsels of food; leftover bits of meat or other fragments remaining after a meal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only, regional
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
From chimble (“to nibble; to gnaw; to crumble”), a dialectal English verb recorded in nineteenth-century provincial glossaries, notably in Buckinghamshire and surrounding counties. Related to chibble, chivel, and crumble in regional use.
