name
Meaning 1
A surname from Old English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
kibble
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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/ˈkɪbəl/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -ɪbəl
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CMU ARPABET: K IH1 B AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Something that has been kibbled, especially grain for use as animal feed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
Any artificial animal feed in pellet form.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
Food that is high in nutritional value yet tasteless.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
An iron bucket used in mines for hoisting anything to the surface.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 6
A mallet used in the game of trap ball.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
Meaning 7
In the Transformers fandom, pieces of a toy or figure necessary for one mode, but appearing out of place or unnecessary in the other.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, uncountable
Topics: lifestyle
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verb
Meaning 8
To grind coarsely.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- kibbled oats
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noun
Meaning 9
an iron bucket used for hoisting in wells or mining
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: bucket, pail
noun
Meaning 10
coarsely ground grain in the form of pellets (as for pet food)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: meal
History
Etymology
Variant of Keble; see there for more.
Unknown; verb sense c. 1790, Shropshire dialect, perhaps variant of chip or derived from Etymology 2 below.
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.
Possibly from kibble (“animal feed”).
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: rouhe — something coarsely ground
- German: Trockenfutter — something coarsely ground
- German: Schrot — something coarsely ground
- Italian: granella — something coarsely ground
- Polish: śruta — something coarsely ground
- Czech: granule — animal feed
- French: croquette — animal feed
- Italian: croccantino — animal feed
- Italian: crocchetta — animal feed
- Polish: sucha karma — animal feed
- Spanish: pienso — animal feed
- Spanish: galletitas — animal feed
- Spanish: croquetas — animal feed
- Bulgarian: меля на едро (melja na edro) — to grind coarsely
- Finnish: rouhia — to grind coarsely
- French: concasser — to grind coarsely
- German: schroten — to grind coarsely
- Polish: śrutować — to grind coarsely
- Polish: ześrutować — to grind coarsely
- Russian: дроби́ть (drobítʹ) — to grind coarsely