chimblins

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Small fragments or crumbs produced by nibbling or gnawing; tiny pieces left after something has been chewed, crumbled, or worn away, especially as by mice or vermin. Midlands,archaic,dialectal,plural,plural-only
    — The mice have chimbled the cheese all to pieces, and left nothing but the chimblings
  2. (by extension, rare, family usage) Small scraps or morsels of food; leftover bits of meat or other fragments remaining after a meal. plural,plural-only,regional

词汇关系

衍生词
chimble chimbling

词源

From chimble (“to nibble; to gnaw; to crumble”), a dialectal English verb recorded in
nineteenth-century provincial glossaries, notably in Buckinghamshire and surrounding
counties. Related to chibble, chivel, and crumble in regional use.
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