kibble

Meanings

Verb

• To grind coarsely.

Noun

• Something that has been kibbled, especially grain for use as animal feed.
• Any artificial animal feed in pellet form.
• An iron bucket used in mines for hoisting anything to the surface.

Origin

• Unknown; verb sense c. 1790, Shropshire dialect, perhaps variant of chip.
• From German Kübel ("pail"), from Middle High German, from Old High German -chublī (in miluhchublī), from Vulgar Latin *cupia, from Latin cūpa.