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ribbit

/ˈɹɪbɪt/

ribbit interjection: the vocal sound made by a frog or toad.

Interjection

  1. (onomatopoeic) The vocal sound made by a frog or toad.
    • Widow Toad: Looks kinds puny to me. Looks like a breeze could carry her off. Ribbit, ribbit. Maybe she could cook and clean my house.1943, Vera Morris, transl., Thumbelina, Denver, Colorado: Pioneer Drama Service, page 9
    • Frogs croaking ribbit, ribbit
      Trees rustling sssshh, ssshh
      Water rushing over rapids splash, clash.1992 April 19, The Canberra Times, Australian Captial Territory, page 2, column 1
  2. Used to anonymously and disrespectfully break silence, as in educational or ceremonial settings.
    • The students fell momentarily silent while he finished writing on the board. Then, "Ribbit!"

Noun

ribbit (plural ribbits)

  1. The vocal sound made by a frog or toad.

Verb

ribbit (third-person singular simple present ribbits, present participle ribbiting or ribbitting, simple past and past participle ribbited or ribbitted)

  1. (intransitive) To make the sound of a frog or toad.

ribbit meaning in Bengali, Tagalog, Malay and Indonesian

ribbit in Bengali

ব্যাঙ, ডাকের শব্দ করা

ribbit in Tagalog

the sound made by a frog or toad
kokak

ribbit in Malay

the sound made by a frog or toad
kuak

ribbit in Indonesian

the sound made by a frog or toad
kekok
More languagesFewer languages
ribbit in Vietnamese
ộp ộp, ộp oạp, qua qua, quạ quạ

Forms of ribbit

Noun
pluralribbits
Verb
third-person singular presentribbits
present participleribbiting
present participleribbitting
past participleribbited
pastribbited
past participleribbitted
pastribbitted

Origin of ribbit

Onomatopoeic.

Words formed from ribbit

Words that rhyme with ribbit

Questions about ribbit

What does ribbit mean?
Ribbit means the vocal sound made by a frog or toad.
What is ribbit in Bengali?
Ribbit in Bengali is ব্যাঙ, ডাকের শব্দ করা. See Ribbit meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is ribbit?
Ribbit can be an interjection, a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce ribbit?
Ribbit is pronounced /ˈɹɪbɪt/.

Words near ribbit in the dictionary

  1. ribbiest
  2. ribbin'
  3. ribbing
  4. ribbingly
  5. ribbings
  6. ribbit
  7. ribbited
  8. ribbiter
  9. ribbiters
  10. ribbiting
  11. ribbits

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ribbit (page history and authors); ribbit (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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