Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
pebble .
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Examples
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The crazy pibble mix we've got for the weekend whined all night and woke us up at 7 a.m. with a barking contest to rival the dog next door.
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To make up for the chilling news, here's yet another dog video of a pibble and mini schnau spooning.
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The crazy pibble mix we've got for the weekend whined all night and woke us up at 7 a.m. with a barking contest to rival the dog next door.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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To make up for the chilling news, here's yet another dog video of a pibble and mini schnau spooning.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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This Pond was no deeper, then to reach the breast of a man, and having no mud or soyle in it, the bottome thereof shewed like small beaten gravell, with prety pibble stones intermixed, which some that had nothing else to do, would sit downe and count them as they lay, as very easily they might.
The Decameron 2004
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If you would take the pains but to examine the wars of Pompey the Great, you shall find, I warrant you, that there is no tiddle-taddle nor pibble-pabble in Pompeys camp; I warrant you, you shall find the ceremonies of the wars, and the cares of it, and the forms of it, and the sobriety of it, and the modesty of it, to be otherwise.
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I adopted my pibble as a twelve week old, malnourished, unhealthy, abused puppy from the local animal control shelter when I was in college.
The Clog 2010
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I warrant you, that there is no tiddle taddle, or pibble pabble in
King Henry the Fifth Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre William Shakespeare 1590
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Temporal aspects were not evaluated: Even if it could be demonstrated that the ownership of allegedly vicious dogs was truly correlated with criminal behavior or psychopathy (and it most definately was not) - did the psychopathic tendency lead to pibble ownership or does owning a pibble make you a psychopath?
WordPress.com News 2009
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An’ when thee’st got thy face washed as clean as the smooth white pibble, an’ thy hair combed so nice, and thy eyes a-sparklin’ — what else is there as thy old mother should like to look at half so well?
Adam Bede 2004
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