snib (plural snibs)
(Scotland, Australia) A latch or fastening for a door, window etc.
(obsolete) A reprimand; a snub.
snib (third-person singular simple present snibs, present participle snibbing, simple past and past participle snibbed)
(Scotland, Australia) To latch (a door, window etc.).
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Source: Wiktionary
Snib, v. t. Etym: [OE. snibben; cf. Dan. snibbe, and E. snub, v. t.]
Definition: To check; to sneap; to sneb. [Obs.] Him would he snib sharply for the nones. Chaucer.
Snib, n.
Definition: A reprimand; a snub. [Obs.] Marston.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 November 2024
(noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; “she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
