bibe
/baɪb/
bibe noun: a type of banshee whose cry indicates someone's impending death.
Noun
bibe (plural bibes)
- A type of banshee whose cry indicates someone's impending death.
- "[…] But when Jack lies on his low death-bed, with the clammy dews standing on his brow, the moaning bibe combing her yellow locks, and singing the death-wail at his casement, then will this, and all poor Delaney's other actions, appear to his darkening eye in their true colours."1822, “All Hallow Eve in Ireland”, in Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, volume IX, number XV, page 257
- Down there where the Bibe had her hole out of which she would howl to the rising moon and to the fairy peoples that would be peeping out at the new moon only to withdraw their small heads as they heard the cry of the Bibe.1952, Shaw Desmond, Love by the Dark Water, page 11
Forms of bibe
| plural | bibes |
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Origin of bibe
Borrowed from Irish badhb, a variant of badhbh.
Words that rhyme with bibe
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Questions about bibe
- What does bibe mean?
- Bibe means a type of banshee whose cry indicates someone's impending death.
- What part of speech is bibe?
- Bibe is a noun.
- How do you pronounce bibe?
- Bibe is pronounced /baɪb/.
- What is the plural of bibe?
- The plural of bibe is bibes.
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