Bibb
/bɪb/noun
An archaic or dialectal variant of “bib,” meaning to drink.
Did you know?Its ancestor is Latin bibere, whose repeated syllable may preserve an ancient reduplicated form of the Indo-European root for drinking.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*pib-
“to drink”
Classical Latin
Latin
bibere
“to drink”
Old French
Old French
beivre
“to drink; an alternate Romance development from the same Latin verb”
14th Century
Middle English
bibben
“to drink”
Modern English
English
bib
“to drink; also, a cloth worn to protect clothing while eating”
Modern English
English
bibb
“A dialectal or archaic spelling variant of “bib””