Noun: bib
Sample Sentences
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In summer the whole throat and breast are black, but in winter plumage the throat is white bounded by a horseshoe-shaped black bib. [1950, Arthur Cleveland Bent, Life Histories of North American Wagtails, Shrikes, Vireos, and their Allies:]
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He don't look anything like the captain. This here cat has got a nice thick black coat of fur with a nice white bib and white feet. [2011, Arthur Peacock, Gettysburg the Cat, page 22:]
Nouns inflected like bib
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Originally verb sense “drink heartily”, from Middle English bibben, either from Latin bibō (“to drink”) or of imitative origin. Noun sense (clothing) presumably either because worn while drinking, or because the clothing itself “drinks up” spills. See: Latin Nouns '
bibō'.
Verbs referencing "bib"
Irish Nouns
bibe.