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🥣 To eat noisily 🗣️ To talk foolishly
to bibble

to bibble

9.9
To eat or drink noisily over and over
  • verb
  • /ˈbɪbəl/
  • Archaic
translation icon : comer ruidosamente
  • I love to bibble my soup loudly.

Examples

  • She bibbled from her water bottle throughout the meeting, taking tiny sips.

  • Children often bibble their juice during long family dinners.

  • He would bibble his coffee while reading the morning newspaper.

  • The baby bibbled happily while eating.

  • The baby bibbles happily as she drinks her bottle.

  • We could hear the frogs bibbling by the pond as we walked by.

  • As he bibbled his soup, the sound of slurping filled the quiet room.

Synonyms

to munch
vsto bibble
43 2.6

To chew food noisily, often making a crunching sound

is general noisy or repetitive eating or drinking not limited to chewing
to slurp
vsto bibble
22 4.8

To eat or drink something with a loud sucking noise

is broader noisy eating or drinking not limited to sucking sounds
to gobble
vsto bibble
16 2.6

To eat food quickly and noisily without chewing properly

is noisy or repetitive eating or drinking rather than mainly about speed

Antonyms

to savor
  • US
4 3.9

To give food a certain taste with spices or herbs

How Noisy

to slurp
22 4.8
to gobble
16 2.6
to munch
43 2.6
to bibble
  • Archaic
9.9
to nibble
56 2.0

Surface Forms

bibble infinitive
bibbed past
bibbed past participle
bibbling present participle
bibbles third person singular

Etymology

Bibble for noisy eating or drinking probably comes from the small sound bib, which sounds like quick little sips and brings to mind the idea 'to drink' and a baby with a bib making a mess. So, bibble means to eat or drink in a repetitive, noisy way.