Chimblins

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 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

Synonyms

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chumblingscrumbsnibblings

Example

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"The mice have chimbled the cheese all to pieces, and left nothing but the chimblings"

Etymology

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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