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bibbing

bibbing is the present participle and gerund of bib.

Meaning of bib

Verb (1)

bib (third-person singular simple present bibs, present participle bibbing, simple past and past participle bibbed)

  1. (transitive) 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
  2. (archaic, intransitive) 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]...

Verb (2)

bib (third-person singular simple present bibs, present participle bibbing, simple past and past participle bibbed)

  1. (informal) To beep (e.g. a car horn).

See all 11 meanings of bib

Noun

bibbing (countable and uncountable, plural bibbings)

  1. The act of one who bibs; a drinking session.
    • Bibbings of the Tippling Bishops2004, Yassen Borislavov, Bulgarian Wine Book, page 57

Forms of bibbing

pluralbibbings

Words formed from bibbing

Words that rhyme with bibbing

Questions about bibbing

What does bibbing mean?
Bibbing means the act of one who bibs; a drinking session.
What is bibbing the present participle and gerund of?
Bibbing is the present participle and gerund of bib.
What part of speech is bibbing?
Bibbing is a noun.
What is the plural of bibbing?
The plural of bibbing is bibbings.

Words near bibbing in the dictionary

  1. bibber
  2. bibbers
  3. bibbery
  4. Bibbey
  5. bibbidi-bobbidi-boo
  6. bibbing
  7. bibbings
  8. bibble
  9. bibble-babble
  10. bibble-babbles
  11. bibblebabble

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bibbing (page history and authors); bib (page history and authors). 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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