chimblins.
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.
Meaning & usage
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
(by extension, rare, family usage) Small scraps or morsels of food; leftover bits of meat or other fragments remaining after a meal.
Where this word comes from
From chimble (“to nibble; to gnaw; to crumble”), a dialectal English verb recorded in nineteenth-century provincial glossaries, notably in Buckinghamshire and surrounding counties. Related to chibble, chivel, and crumble in regional use.
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