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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Ay, sir; where lies that? if ’twere a kibe.
From The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by John Glover
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 William Shakespeare
The age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett
And therefore, though Society feel The Proletariat's heavy heel Its kibe approaching, Some luxuries yet are left to sing, The Opera-Box, the Row, the Ring, And Golf, and Coaching.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 10, 1892 by Various
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 Elbert Hubbard
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