Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bibe

/baɪb/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bibe
IPA: /baɪb/

8

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of banshee whose cry indicates someone's impending death.

Example Sentences

""[…] But when Jack lies on his low death-bed, with the clammy dews standing on his brow, the moaning bibe combing her yellow locks, and singing the death-wail at his casement, then will this, and all poor Delaney's other actions, appear to his darkening eye in their true colours.""
"Down there where the Bibe had her hole out of which she would howl to the rising moon and to the fairy peoples that would be peeping out at the new moon only to withdraw their small heads as they heard the cry of the Bibe."
"He never believed in the bibe although the people were always talking of her."
"Sophie's face grew serious. "Not the bibe. She comes when we dies.""

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish badhb, a variant of badhbh.

Origin

Source language: Irish

Word Breakdown

Root: badhb

Inflected Forms

bibes (plural)

Rhymes With

describe tribe subscribe vibe bribe prescribe scribe unsubscribe ascribe transcribe jibe imbibe

Questions

How do you pronounce bibe?: The recorded pronunciation is /baɪb/.
What does bibe mean?: A type of banshee whose cry indicates someone's impending death.
Where does bibe come from?: It is traced to Irish.

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