Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A chapped or inflamed area on the skin, especially on the heel, resulting from exposure to cold; an ulcerated chillblain.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A chap or crack in the flesh, caused by cold; an ulcerated chilblain, as on the heel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A chap or crack in the flesh occasioned by cold; an ulcerated chilblain.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
chilblain orulcer , especially on the heel of the foot
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun ulcerated chilblain on the heel
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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_kaab_ would be translated, in old English, "kibe;"
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government James Richardson 1828
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He talked a lot longer than Obama, but he did very well. velosia kibe
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In Brazil, it is called quibe or kibe; elsewhere in Latin America, kipe or quipe.
Archive 2007-08-01 Bryanna Clark Grogan 2007
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In Brazil, it is called quibe or kibe; elsewhere in Latin America, kipe or quipe.
MORE ADVENTURES IN MIDDLE EASTERN COOKING: POTATO KIBBI/KIBBEH Bryanna Clark Grogan 2007
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_ Ay, sir; and where lies that? if 'twere a kibe, [408-68] 'Twould put me to my slipper: but I feel not
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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All ungalled of him is each courtier's heel or great man's kibe.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 Various
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QUOTATION: The age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.
Quotations 1919
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But now, sir, the clouted shoe of the peasant galls the kibe or the courtier.
Chapter XLII 1917
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By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.
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So making a little longer step than I should otherwise have done I "galled his kibe."
The Private Life of Henry Maitland Roberts, Morley, 1857-1942 1912
asativum commented on the word kibe
Is that what it's called?
September 10, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word kibe
A chap or crack in the flesh occasioned by cold.
"He galls his kibe." -- Shakespeare.
December 31, 2008
yarb commented on the word kibe
The different departments of life are jumbled together -- The hod-carrier, the low mechanic, the tapster, the publican, the shopkeeper, the pettifogger, the citizen, and courtier, all tread upon the kibes of one another...
- Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Bramble to Lewis), 1771
January 6, 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word kibe
"Fool: If a man's brains were in's heels, were't not in danger of kibes?
Lear: Ay, boy."
- Shakespeare, quoted as epitaph to Poet's Pub by Eric Linklater
November 21, 2011