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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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
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
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
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
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
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