bib
/bɪb/
bib noun: an item of clothing for people (especially babies) tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating. Also the ellipsis of bib short.
Noun
bib (plural bibs)
- An item of clothing for people (especially babies) tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating.
- Similar items of clothing such as the Chinese dudou and Vietnamese yem.
- A rectangular piece of material, carrying a bib number, worn as identification by competitors.
- A colourful polyester or plastic vest worn over one's clothes, usually to mark one's team during group activities.
- Synonyms:
- pinny
- The upper part of an apron or overalls.
- A patch of colour around an animal's upper breast and throat.
- In summer the whole throat and breast are black, but in winter plumage the throat is white bounded by a horseshoe-shaped black bib.1950, Arthur Cleveland Bent, Life Histories of North American Wagtails, Shrikes, Vireos, and their Allies
- He don't look anything like the captain. This here cat has got a nice thick black coat of fur with a nice white bib and white feet.2011, Arthur Peacock, Gettysburg the Cat, page 22
- A north Atlantic fish (Trisopterus luscus), allied to the cod.
- Synonyms:
- pouting
- A bibb (bibcock).
Verb (1)
bib (third-person singular simple present bibs, present participle bibbing, simple past and past participle bibbed)
- To dress (somebody) in a bib.
- Wise women use them, but new fathers seldom seem to understand that one minute bibbing baby saves who knows how long swabbing, finding clean clothes, changing, and coddling later — not to mention laundry time.1990, Don Aslett, Don Aslett's Stain-buster's Bible: The Complete Guide to Spot Removal
- Mel got Daniel into his chair and bibbed him up.2011, Dawn Atkins, The Baby Connection, page 101
- To drink heartily; to tipple.
- Iff I were a fleſhly felowe, and a preacher of lyes and tolde them that they might ſyt bebbinge and bollynge, and be droncken: O that were a prophet for this people.1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Micheas [Micah]...
- they gave him drink as often as he cry'd; so that he was constantly bibbing1693, [John Locke], “§18”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC
Verb (2)
bib (third-person singular simple present bibs, present participle bibbing, simple past and past participle bibbed)
- To beep (e.g. a car horn).
Phrase capitalized: BIB
BIB
Also used as
bib is also the ellipsis of bib short.
bib meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
bib in Hindi
- बिब, बी. आई. बी
bib in Marathi
- बिब
bib in Urdu
- بیب
bib in Bengali
- বিব, বিব-এর কাছে
More languagesFewer languages
- bib in Telugu
- బిబ్, బీబ్
- bib in Malayalam
- ബിബ്
- bib in Kannada
- ಬಿಬ್, ಬಿಬ್ಗೆ
- bib in Punjabi
- ਬਿੱਬ, ਬੀ. ਆਈ. ਬੀ
- bib in Gujarati
- બિબ, બી. આઈ. બી
- bib in Odia
- ବିବ୍
- bib in Nepali
- बिब, बिब गर्न
- bib in Tagalog
- sapula, salumbaba
- bib in Arabic
- مِرْيَلَة miryala
- bib in Malay
- lapik dada
- bib in Indonesian
- oto
- bib in Thai
- เอี๊ยม íiam, เต่า dtào
- bib in Vietnamese
- yếm dãi
Examples of bib in a sentence
- The baby dribbled onto its bib.
- Anna Sparks shrugged into her air jacket and slipped her bib over the top of it.
- Black sheer blouses with squared bib fronts, and expensive-looking black and dark grey woollen knits.
Synonyms of bib
Forms of bib
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | bibs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | bibs |
| present participle | bibbing |
| past participle | bibbed |
| past | bibbed |
Origin of bib
Originally verb sense “drink heartily”, from Middle English bibben, either from Latin bibō (“to drink”) or of imitative origin. Noun sense (clothing) presumably either because worn while drinking, or because the clothing itself “drinks up” spills.
Words formed from bib
Phrases with bib
Words that rhyme with bib
Questions about bib
- What does bib mean?
- Bib means an item of clothing for people (especially babies) tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating.
- What is bib in Hindi?
- Bib in Hindi is बिब, बी. आई. बी. See Bib meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is bib?
- Bib can be a noun, a verb or a phrase.
- How do you pronounce bib?
- Bib is pronounced /bɪb/.
- What is the plural of bib?
- The plural of bib is bibs.
Words near bib in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bib (page history and authors); BIB (page history and authors); bib (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bib (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bib (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bib (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bib (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bib (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bib (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bib (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bib (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bib (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bib (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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