{"id":2836,"date":"2010-05-03T21:16:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T20:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2010-05-03T21:16:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T20:16:24","slug":"word-of-the-day-dibble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=2836","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; dibble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dibble<\/strong>, verb = to drink like a duck, lifting up the head after each sip.<\/p>\n<p>This is a definition of this word that I heard on the radio today. Officer Dibble in Top Cat was also mentioned. <\/p>\n<p>However in my English dictionary a dibble is defined as:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>a small hand tool used to make holes in the ground for planing bulbs and seeds<\/li>\n<li>to make a hole with such a tool<\/li>\n<li>to plant with such a tool, which is also known as a dibber.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It first appeared in writing during the 15th century and is of obscure origin. There&#8217;s nothing about ducks there, but the drinking like a duck meaning does appear in lists of obscure words like<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allbusiness.com\/humanities-social-science\/literature-literature\/12996767-1.html\"> this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dibble, verb = to drink like a duck, lifting up the head after each sip. This is a definition of this word that I heard on the radio today. Officer Dibble in Top Cat was also mentioned. However in my English dictionary a dibble is defined as: a small hand tool used to make holes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}