Definitions for kibes

kibes kibe

Spelling: [kahyb]
IPA: /kaɪb/

Kibes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in kibes (beiks).

Definitions for kibes

noun

  1. a chapped or ulcerated chilblain, especially on the heel.

Origin of kibes

1350-1400; Middle English kybe, perhaps Welsh cibi

Examples for kibes

In England “the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.”

But now, sir, the clouted shoe of the peasant galls the kibe of the courtier.

The age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.

The age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.

All ungalled of him is each courtier's heel or great man's kibe.

Meanwhile the purely plebeian society was growing, and the toe of the clown beginning to gall the kibe of the courtier.

It belongs to a romantic age where excess was atoned for by asceticism, and spasms of vice galled the kibe of negative virtue.

Word Value for kibes
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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