chimblinsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

IPA: /ˈtʃɪm.blɪŋz/

名詞

chimblins pl (plural only)

1. (dialect, archaic, chiefly Buckinghamshire, Midlands) 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.

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

   Synonyms: chumblings, nibblings, crumbs

2. (regional) (by extension, rare, family usage) Small scraps or morsels of food; leftover bits of meat or other fragments remaining after a meal.

派生語

参照

• James Orchard Halliwell (1846), “CHIMBLE”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. […], volume I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, […], →OCLC, page 246, column 2: “Fragments so made are called chimblings”
• “Buckinghamshire Vocabulary - C”, in GENUKI‎, 25 November 2025 (last accessed), “CHIBBLE" or "CHIMBLE”
• Baker, Anne Elizabeth (1854), “chumblings”, in Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases‎, volume 1, page 113.
• Arthur Benoni Evans (1881), “chimble, chibble, chivel”, in Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs‎, volume 11, pages 120-121