What does bibe mean?
Bibe means (Ireland, Newfoundland) A type of banshee whose cry indicates someone's impending death.
Bibe
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /baɪb/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Bibe is a noun meaning (Ireland, Newfoundland) A type of banshee whose cry indicates someone's impending death.
Meaning
(Ireland, Newfoundland) A type of banshee whose cry indicates someone's impending death.
Example Sentences
Sophie's face grew serious. "Not the bibe. She comes when we dies."
He never believed in the bibe although the people were always talking of her.
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.
"[…] 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."
Word Forms
- bibes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bibbing, kibe, binner, bibble, blob, keen.
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How do you use bibe in a sentence?
Sophie's face grew serious. "Not the bibe. She comes when we dies."
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