Meanings
present singular third person cribbles · participle present cribbling · participle past cribbled · past cribbled
- To pass something through a sieve.
comparative more cribble · superlative most cribble
- obsoletecoarse
1849, Henry Bullinger, H. I (translator), The Decades The gardens, with digging for novelties, are turned over and over, because we will not eat common cribble bread.
Origin
- Late Latincriblus“sieve”
- Frenchcrible
- Englishcribble
Borrowed from French crible, from Late Latin criblus (“sieve”).
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Cite this entry
cribble. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cribble
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