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单词 clibby
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clibbyadj.

Etymology: The Cornwall Glossaries have clib to adhere; in Cornwall and Devonshire clibby is ‘sticky, adhesive’; Old English had clibbor ‘adhesive, sticky’, related to clifian , cleave v.2Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈclibby.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
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1598 R. Carew Herrings Tayle 734 Then clibbie ladder gainst his battered flanck he reares.
1876 Nares's Gloss. Clibby, is used in the dialect of Devon in the sense of adhesive.
1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 12/1 Clibby, adhesive, sticky.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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