different between drib vs dib

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??b/

Etymology 1

From dialectal English drib (compare also drub), a variant from Middle English drepen (“to hit, strike, slay”), from Old English drepan (“to strike, kill, overcome”), from Proto-Germanic *drepan? (“to hit, strike”).

Verb

drib (third-person singular simple present dribs, present participle dribbing, simple past and past participle dribbed)

1. (transitive) To cut off; chop off.
2. (transitive) To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.
3. (transitive) To entice step by step.
   • 1717, John Dryden, Art of Love

     With daily lies she dribs thee into cost.

4. To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.

   • He who drives their bargains dribs a part.

5. (transitive, archery) To shoot directly at short range.
6. (intransitive, archery) To shoot at a mark at short range.
7. (transitive, archery) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
   • c. 1580s, Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella Sonnet 2

     Not at first sight, nor with a dribbèd shot, / Love gave the wound [...]

8. (transitive, now chiefly Britain dialectal) To beat; thrash; drub.
9. (transitive, now chiefly Britain dialectal) To scold.
10. (transitive, now chiefly Britain dialectal, marbles) To strike another player's marble when playing from the trigger.

Etymology 2

From a variant of drip.

Noun

drib (plural dribs)

1. (obsolete) A drop.
   • a. 1772, Rupert Barber, An Answer to the Christmas-Box

     squandering his money in dribs to the poor

Derived terms

• dribs and drabs

Anagrams

• Bird, bird

English

Etymology 1

Verb

dib (third-person singular simple present dibs, present participle dibbing, simple past and past participle dibbed)

1. To dig a hole by poking; especially, to dig a small hole in soil for the purpose of planting a bulb or seed
2. To move in a rapid, cautious manner; especially, with movement like a mouse or rat.

See also

• dibbing
• dibber
• dibble
• dibs

Noun

dib (plural dibs)

1. A dibber (gardening tool)
2. One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints.

Etymology 2

Verb

dib (third-person singular simple present dibs, present participle dibbing, simple past and past participle dibbed)

1. (Scouting) Alternative form of dyb

Anagrams

• BID, DBI, IBD, IDB, bid

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *t?p.

Noun

dib (definite accusative dibi, plural dibl?r)

1. bottom

2. root, base

3. lower part
4. deep (a long way inside; situated far in or back)

5. (mining) face (as in coalface)
6. (colloquial) hymen

   Synonym: q?zl?q p?rd?si

Declension

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (?i?b). Compare Moroccan Arabic ???? (d?b), Egyptian Arabic ???? (d?b).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?p/

Noun

dib m (plural djieb)

1. wolf

   Synonym: lupu

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dib/

Noun

dib (nominative plural dibs)

1. depth

Declension

Derived terms

• dibik
• dibot