dibblen.¹

/ˈdɪb(ə)l/

Forms: Middle English debylle, 1500s dybbil, 1500s–1600s dible, 1500s– dibble.

Etymology: In form belonging apparently to dib v.² (sense 4), -le suffix being instrumental as in beetle , or diminutive: compare dibber , dibbing-stick in same sense. Dibble is however evidenced much earlier than dib v.², which leaves the nature of their relation doubtful.

a. An instrument used to make holes in the ground for seeds, bulbs, or young plants. In its simplest form, a stout pointed cylindrical stick with or without a handle; but it may also have a cross bar or projection for the foot ( foot-dibble), or be forked at the point, or furnished with several points to make a number of holes at once.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > dibber

dibblec1450

planting stick1552

setting-stick1553

thivel1691

dibber1736

kippeen1830

dibbler1847

c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 713 Hoc subterrarium, a debylle.

1483 Cath. Angl. 92 A Debylle, pastinacum, subterratorium.

1563 T. Hill Most Briefe Treat. Garden (new ed.) 128 With your forked dibble, put vnder the head, loose it so in the earth, that [etc.].

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Kiv/1 A Dybbil.

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 43^v Through cunning with dybble, rake, mattock & spade: by line & by leauell, trim garden is made.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 100 Ile not put The Dible in earth, to set one slip of them.

1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 64 A Dibble, an instrument to make holes in the ground with for setting beans, pease or the like.

1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) (at cited word) There is a Dibble of a modern Invention with several Teeth, the Body of it is made of a light Wood, and the Teeth of a Wood that is somewhat harder.

1818 J. Keats Endymion iii. 112 In sowing time ne'er would I dibble take, Or drop a seed.

1856 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Flower Garden 48 To plant them with the trowel or dibble.

1859 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 29 397 The people use a msaha or dibble, a chisel-shaped bit of iron, with a socket to receive a wooden handle.

†b. ? A moustache. Obsolete slang.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [noun] > moustache

mustachio1551

mustachio beard1566

moustache1585

mustachiosa1593

bigote1622

dibble1631

umbrage1657

whisker1706

lip-wing1825

facial hair1830

mousetail1853

lip-hair1873

lip-thatch1892

hackles1894

mo1894

tash1894

zit1912

mouser1922

stash1940

taz1951

stache1963

mush1967

1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. iii. 21 in Wks. II Neuer tuske, nor twirle your dibble, good Iordane.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

dibblen.²

Brit.

/ˈdɪbl/, U.S.

/ˈdɪb(ə)l/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Dibble.

Etymology: < the name of Officer Dibble, a friendly but largely ineffectual policeman character in the U.S. television cartoon Top Cat (originally broadcast 1960–1 (and first shown in the United Kingdom in 1962, originally under the name Boss Cat), but frequently repeated).

British slang (originally in Manchester).

With the and plural agreement: the police. Also as a count noun: a police officer.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun]

police1798

police force1820

constabulary1837

the force1851

John Law1903

button1921

fuzz1929

law1929

Babylon1943

monaych1961

filth1967

heat1967

Bill1969

Old Bill1970

beast1978

blues and twos1985

dibble1990

po-po1994

society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman

truncheon officer1708

runner1735

horny1753

nibbing-cull1775

nabbing-cull1780

police officer1784

police constable1787

policeman1788

scout1789

nabman1792

nabber1795

pig1811

Bow-street officer1812

nab1813

peeler1816

split1819

grunter1823

robin redbreast1824

bulky1828

raw (or unboiled) lobster1829

Johnny Darm1830

polis1833

crusher1835

constable1839

police1839

agent1841

johndarm1843

blue boy1844

bobby1844

bluebottle1845

copper1846

blue1848

polisman1850

blue coat1851

Johnny1851

PC1851

spot1851

Jack1854

truncheonist1854

fly1857

greycoat1857

cop1859

Cossack1859

slop1859

scuffer1860

nailerc1863

worm1864

Robert1870

reeler1879

minion of the law1882

ginger pop1887

rozzer1888

nark1890

bull1893

grasshopper1893

truncheon-bearer1896

John1898

finger1899

flatty1899

mug1903

John Dunn1904

John Hop1905

gendarme1906

Johnny Hop1908

pavement pounder1908

buttons1911

flat-foot1913

pounder1919

Hop1923

bogy1925

shamus1925

heat1928

fuzz1929

law1929

narker1932

roach1932

jonnop1938

grass1939

roller1940

Babylon1943

walloper1945

cozzer1950

Old Bill1958

cowboy1959

monaych1961

cozzpot1962

policeperson1965

woolly1965

Fed1966

wolly1970

plod1971

roz1971

Smokey Bear1974

bear1975

beast1978

woodentop1981

Five-O1983

dibble1990

Bow-street runner-

1990 Guardian 15 Dec. (Weekend Suppl.) 20/1 In April the police, or the dibble as they like to call them around here [sc. Moss Side, Manchester], raided a flat where they found a 16-year-old boy with a gun.

1998 J. White Diary Darren Tackle 29 I got back after that Barney Butcher show a week ago to find my ansafone lighting up like a dibble's breathalyser.

2004 V. McDermid Torment of Others (2005) 148 Not a good idea just now, Jason. I'm waiting for the dibble.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

dibblev.¹

/ˈdɪb(ə)l/

Etymology: < dibble n.¹

1. transitive. To make a hole in (the soil) with or as with a dibble; to sow or plant by this means. to dibble in (also into): to put in or plant by dibbling.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > plant plants [verb (transitive)] > make hole with dibble

dibble1582

hole1756

dab1787

strike1797

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 77 So far is yt crampornd with roote deepe dibled at helgat's.

1797 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Suffolk 47 One farmer near Dunwich..dibbled 258 acres.

1799 Gentleman's Mag. 1 392 A woman employed..dibbling beans.

a1800 W. Cowper Yardley-Oak in W. Hayley Life & Posthumous Writings Cowper (1804) III. 410 A skipping deer, With pointed hoof dibbling the glebe.

1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. ix. 160 The clayey soil around it was dibbled thick..by the tiny hoofs of sheep.

1855 M. Arnold Balder Dead iii. 312 The soft strewn snow Under the trees is dibbled thick with holes.

1872 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia (new ed.) iv. 54 The seeds of the dhurra are dibbled in about three feet apart.

in extended use.1883 Sir E. Beckett in Knowl. 31 Aug. 140/2 The printer's passion for dibbling in a comma between every two adjectives.

2. intransitive. To use or work with a dibble; to bore holes in the soil.

ΚΠ

1895 N.E.D. at Dibble Mod. He was dibbling in his garden.

Derivatives

ˈdibbled adj.

ˈdibbling n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > [noun] > making holes with dibbler

dibbling1795

1795 Hull Advertiser 10 Oct. 3/3 If Dibbling, instead of Broadcast, was wholly practised, it would produce a saving.

1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 407 It appears..that drilling with the hoe is much preferable to dibbling.

1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 38 Depositing the seed in holes..at regular intervals..is called drilling, or dibbling.

Compounds

dibbling-machine n.

ΚΠ

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Dibbling-machine, one used for making holes in rows for potato sets, for beans, or other things which are planted isolated in rows.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

dibblev.²

/ˈdɪb(ə)l/

Etymology: Perhaps a derived form < dabble v. with lighter vowel: but compare dib v.² 3.

1. intransitive. = dabble v. 2.

ΚΠ

1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxv. 106 And neere to them ye see the lesser dibling Teale.

2. = dib v.² 3, dap v. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (intransitive)] > fish using bait > let bait bob

dap1653

dop1653

dab1676

dibble1676

dib1681

dip1799

1676 C. Cotton Compl. Angler (T.) This stone-fly..we dape or dibble with, as with the drake.

1681 J. Chetham Angler's Vade Mecum vii. 57 When you Angle at Ground, in a cleer Water, or dibble with natural Flies.

1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. 51 Dibble lightly on the Surface of the Water.

1833 Fraser's Mag. 7 54 He..bobs and dibbles till he hooks his prey.

Derivatives

ˈdibbling n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > using bait > letting bait bob

dibbling1676

dibbing1681

dapping1799

1676 C. Cotton Compl. Angler v. 295 This way of fishing we call Daping or Dabbing, or Dibling wherein you are always to have your Line flying before you up or down the River as the Wind serves.

1858 Sat. Rev. 5 569/2 Dibbling for trout he considers a high achievement.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹c1450

n.²1990

v.¹1582

v.²1622

单词	dibble
释义	dibblen.¹ /ˈdɪb(ə)l/ Forms: Middle English debylle, 1500s dybbil, 1500s–1600s dible, 1500s– dibble. Etymology: In form belonging apparently to dib v.² (sense 4), -le suffix being instrumental as in beetle , or diminutive: compare dibber , dibbing-stick in same sense. Dibble is however evidenced much earlier than dib v.², which leaves the nature of their relation doubtful. a. An instrument used to make holes in the ground for seeds, bulbs, or young plants. In its simplest form, a stout pointed cylindrical stick with or without a handle; but it may also have a cross bar or projection for the foot ( foot-dibble), or be forked at the point, or furnished with several points to make a number of holes at once. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > dibber dibblec1450 planting stick1552 setting-stick1553 thivel1691 dibber1736 kippeen1830 dibbler1847 c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 713 Hoc subterrarium, a debylle. 1483 Cath. Angl. 92 A Debylle, pastinacum, subterratorium. 1563 T. Hill Most Briefe Treat. Garden (new ed.) 128 With your forked dibble, put vnder the head, loose it so in the earth, that [etc.]. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Kiv/1 A Dybbil. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 43^v Through cunning with dybble, rake, mattock & spade: by line & by leauell, trim garden is made. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 100 Ile not put The Dible in earth, to set one slip of them. View more context for this quotation 1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 64 A Dibble, an instrument to make holes in the ground with for setting beans, pease or the like. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) (at cited word) There is a Dibble of a modern Invention with several Teeth, the Body of it is made of a light Wood, and the Teeth of a Wood that is somewhat harder. 1818 J. Keats Endymion iii. 112 In sowing time ne'er would I dibble take, Or drop a seed. 1856 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Flower Garden 48 To plant them with the trowel or dibble. 1859 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 29 397 The people use a msaha or dibble, a chisel-shaped bit of iron, with a socket to receive a wooden handle. †b. ? A moustache. Obsolete slang. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [noun] > moustache mustachio1551 mustachio beard1566 moustache1585 mustachiosa1593 bigote1622 dibble1631 umbrage1657 whisker1706 lip-wing1825 facial hair1830 mousetail1853 lip-hair1873 lip-thatch1892 hackles1894 mo1894 tash1894 zit1912 mouser1922 stash1940 taz1951 stache1963 mush1967 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. iii. 21 in Wks. II Neuer tuske, nor twirle your dibble, good Iordane. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). dibblen.² Brit. /ˈdɪbl/, U.S. /ˈdɪb(ə)l/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Dibble. Etymology: < the name of Officer Dibble, a friendly but largely ineffectual policeman character in the U.S. television cartoon Top Cat (originally broadcast 1960–1 (and first shown in the United Kingdom in 1962, originally under the name Boss Cat), but frequently repeated). British slang (originally in Manchester). With the and plural agreement: the police. Also as a count noun: a police officer. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] police1798 police force1820 constabulary1837 the force1851 John Law1903 button1921 fuzz1929 law1929 Babylon1943 monaych1961 filth1967 heat1967 Bill1969 Old Bill1970 beast1978 blues and twos1985 dibble1990 po-po1994 society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman truncheon officer1708 runner1735 horny1753 nibbing-cull1775 nabbing-cull1780 police officer1784 police constable1787 policeman1788 scout1789 nabman1792 nabber1795 pig1811 Bow-street officer1812 nab1813 peeler1816 split1819 grunter1823 robin redbreast1824 bulky1828 raw (or unboiled) lobster1829 Johnny Darm1830 polis1833 crusher1835 constable1839 police1839 agent1841 johndarm1843 blue boy1844 bobby1844 bluebottle1845 copper1846 blue1848 polisman1850 blue coat1851 Johnny1851 PC1851 spot1851 Jack1854 truncheonist1854 fly1857 greycoat1857 cop1859 Cossack1859 slop1859 scuffer1860 nailerc1863 worm1864 Robert1870 reeler1879 minion of the law1882 ginger pop1887 rozzer1888 nark1890 bull1893 grasshopper1893 truncheon-bearer1896 John1898 finger1899 flatty1899 mug1903 John Dunn1904 John Hop1905 gendarme1906 Johnny Hop1908 pavement pounder1908 buttons1911 flat-foot1913 pounder1919 Hop1923 bogy1925 shamus1925 heat1928 fuzz1929 law1929 narker1932 roach1932 jonnop1938 grass1939 roller1940 Babylon1943 walloper1945 cozzer1950 Old Bill1958 cowboy1959 monaych1961 cozzpot1962 policeperson1965 woolly1965 Fed1966 wolly1970 plod1971 roz1971 Smokey Bear1974 bear1975 beast1978 woodentop1981 Five-O1983 dibble1990 Bow-street runner- 1990 Guardian 15 Dec. (Weekend Suppl.) 20/1 In April the police, or the dibble as they like to call them around here [sc. Moss Side, Manchester], raided a flat where they found a 16-year-old boy with a gun. 1998 J. White Diary Darren Tackle 29 I got back after that Barney Butcher show a week ago to find my ansafone lighting up like a dibble's breathalyser. 2004 V. McDermid Torment of Others (2005) 148 Not a good idea just now, Jason. I'm waiting for the dibble. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). dibblev.¹ /ˈdɪb(ə)l/ Etymology: < dibble n.¹ 1. transitive. To make a hole in (the soil) with or as with a dibble; to sow or plant by this means. to dibble in (also into): to put in or plant by dibbling. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > plant plants [verb (transitive)] > make hole with dibble dibble1582 hole1756 dab1787 strike1797 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 77 So far is yt crampornd with roote deepe dibled at helgat's. 1797 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Suffolk 47 One farmer near Dunwich..dibbled 258 acres. 1799 Gentleman's Mag. 1 392 A woman employed..dibbling beans. a1800 W. Cowper Yardley-Oak in W. Hayley Life & Posthumous Writings Cowper (1804) III. 410 A skipping deer, With pointed hoof dibbling the glebe. 1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. ix. 160 The clayey soil around it was dibbled thick..by the tiny hoofs of sheep. 1855 M. Arnold Balder Dead iii. 312 The soft strewn snow Under the trees is dibbled thick with holes. 1872 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia (new ed.) iv. 54 The seeds of the dhurra are dibbled in about three feet apart. in extended use.1883 Sir E. Beckett in Knowl. 31 Aug. 140/2 The printer's passion for dibbling in a comma between every two adjectives. 2. intransitive. To use or work with a dibble; to bore holes in the soil. ΚΠ 1895 N.E.D. at Dibble Mod. He was dibbling in his garden. Derivatives ˈdibbled adj. ˈdibbling n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > [noun] > making holes with dibbler dibbling1795 1795 Hull Advertiser 10 Oct. 3/3 If Dibbling, instead of Broadcast, was wholly practised, it would produce a saving. 1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 407 It appears..that drilling with the hoe is much preferable to dibbling. 1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 38 Depositing the seed in holes..at regular intervals..is called drilling, or dibbling. Compounds dibbling-machine n. ΚΠ 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Dibbling-machine, one used for making holes in rows for potato sets, for beans, or other things which are planted isolated in rows. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2020). dibblev.² /ˈdɪb(ə)l/ Etymology: Perhaps a derived form < dabble v. with lighter vowel: but compare dib v.² 3. 1. intransitive. = dabble v. 2. ΚΠ 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxv. 106 And neere to them ye see the lesser dibling Teale. 2. = dib v.² 3, dap v. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (intransitive)] > fish using bait > let bait bob dap1653 dop1653 dab1676 dibble1676 dib1681 dip1799 1676 C. Cotton Compl. Angler (T.) This stone-fly..we dape or dibble with, as with the drake. 1681 J. Chetham Angler's Vade Mecum vii. 57 When you Angle at Ground, in a cleer Water, or dibble with natural Flies. 1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. 51 Dibble lightly on the Surface of the Water. 1833 Fraser's Mag. 7 54 He..bobs and dibbles till he hooks his prey. Derivatives ˈdibbling n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > using bait > letting bait bob dibbling1676 dibbing1681 dapping1799 1676 C. Cotton Compl. Angler v. 295 This way of fishing we call Daping or Dabbing, or Dibling wherein you are always to have your Line flying before you up or down the River as the Wind serves. 1858 Sat. Rev. 5 569/2 Dibbling for trout he considers a high achievement. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c1450n.²1990v.¹1582v.²1622
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