Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dibble.
- noun A stick used for stirring broth, porridge, etc.; a pot-stick.
- noun A slice; a skimmer; a spatula.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. A slice; a skimmer; a spatula; a pudding stick.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, dialect, obsolete A
stick forstirring food.
Etymologies
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Examples
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To every gallon put in a large lemon, pare and strain it, put the juice and peel into your tub, and when it is wrought put it into your barrel; let it work for three or four days, stir twice a day with a thible, so bung it up, and let it stand two or three months, according to the hotness of the weather.
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It racked me to recall past happiness, and the greater peril there was of conjuring up its apparition, the quicker the thible ran round, and the faster the handfuls of meal fell into the water.
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As soon as these were melted, Bertha broke four eggs into them, stirring this indigestible mixture with a wooden thible -- an article of which my northern readers will not require a description, but the southern must be told that it is a long flat instrument with which porridge is stirred.
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It racked me to recall past happiness and the greater peril there was of conjuring up its apparition, the quicker the thible ran round, and the faster the handfuls of meal fell into the water.
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It racked me to recall past happiness and the greater peril there was of conjuring up its apparition, the quicker the thible ran round, and the faster the handfuls of meal fell into the water.
fbharjo commented on the word thible
a sliver
March 12, 2009
qms commented on the word thible
The Scot and the British cook quibble
‘bout tools used for stirring their nibble:
The Scotsman will hurtle
To call it a spurtle,
The Briton steadfastly says thible.
April 9, 2018