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bibes

bibes is the plural of bibe.

Meaning of bibe

Noun

bibe (plural bibes)

  1. (Ireland, Newfoundland) 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

Questions about bibes

What is bibes the plural of?
Bibes is the plural of bibe.

Words near bibes in the dictionary

  1. bibenzonium
  2. bibenzonium bromide
  3. bibenzyl
  4. bibenzyls
  5. Biber
  6. bibes
  7. bibfinch
  8. bibfinches
  9. bibful
  10. bibfuls
  11. Bibgate

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