kibe
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of kibe
1350–1400; Middle English kybe, perhaps < Welsh cibi
Vocabulary lists containing kibe
Example Sentences
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I'll have to kibe his heels at Court, if you fail.
From Count Alarcos; a Tragedy by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
It belongs to a romantic age where excess was atoned for by asceticism, and spasms of vice galled the kibe of negative virtue.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers by Hubbard, Elbert
If 'twere a kibe, 'Twould put me to my slipper: but I feel not This deity in my bosom: twenty consciences That stand 'twixt me and Milan, candied be they And melt ere they molest!
From The Tempest by Shakespeare, William
Meanwhile the purely plebeian society was growing, and the toe of the clown beginning to gall the kibe of the courtier.
From English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
All ungalled of him is each courtier's heel or great man's kibe.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 by Various
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