bibbern

The contemporary form since the 19th century from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), probably already Middle Low German *bibberen, a frequentative of bēven (Old Saxon bibōn), cognate of German beben. Compare Dutch bibberen (1700). In spite of the late attestations, these informal verbs might be rather old in view of the etymologically regular gemination -ēv- → -ibb-, though this can also be due to analogy. Earlier High German variants are bebern, bebbern (18th c.), perhaps also pöpern (East Central German, late 17th c.). These are formed directly from beben.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɪbɐn]

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bibbern (weak, third-person singular present bibbert, past tense bibberte, past participle gebibbert, auxiliary haben)

1. to shiver
2. to jitter

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• zittern
• schlottern

• Bibbern

• schütteln
• beben
• frösteln
• frieren

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bibbern

1. present participle of bebber
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 84:

     Aar gentrize ware bibbern, aamzil cou no stoane.

     Their gentry were quaking, themselves could not stand.

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 84