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bibbling

bibbling is the present participle and gerund of bibble.

Meaning of bibble

Verb (1)

bibble (third-person singular simple present bibbles, present participle bibbling, simple past and past participle bibbled)

  1. To eat and/or drink noisily.
  2. (intransitive) To tipple.

Verb (2)

bibble (third-person singular simple present bibbles, present participle bibbling, simple past and past participle bibbled)

  1. (colloquial) To worry.
    • "Foxes have holes,' Uncle Abner," said Daisy, " 'and the birds of the air have nests, but the son of man hath not where to lay his head.' Why should we worry when we have such a bully place as this tent?" "Ish ka bibble," said the Reverend Frank. "Well," said I, "about the time the mosquitoes begin...1919, Herbert Quick, The Fairview Idea: A Story of the New Rural Life, page 39

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Questions about bibbling

What is bibbling the present participle and gerund of?
Bibbling is the present participle and gerund of bibble.

Words near bibbling in the dictionary

  1. bibblebabbling
  2. bibbled
  3. bibbler
  4. bibblers
  5. bibbles
  6. bibbling
  7. bibbs
  8. Bibby
  9. bibcam
  10. bibcams
  11. bibcock

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bibbling (page history and authors); bibble (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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