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BIBBING
Verb
bibbing
present participle of bib
Source: Wiktionary
BIB
Bib, n. Etym: [From Bib, v., because the bib receives the drink that the child slavers from the mouth.]
1. A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the clothes.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: An arctic fish (Gadus luscus), allied to the cod; -- called also pout and whiting pout.
3. A bibcock.
Bib, Bibbe, v. t. Etym: [L. bibere. See Beverage, and cf. Imbibe.]
Definition: To drink; to tipple. [Obs.] This miller hath . . . bibbed ale. Chaucer.
Bib, v. i.
Definition: To drink; to sip; to tipple. He was constantly bibbing. Locke.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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