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Ribbing   /rˈɪbɪŋ/   Listen
Ribbing

noun
1.
A framework of ribs.
2.
The act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances.  Synonyms: tantalization, tease, teasing.  "His ribbing was gentle but persistent"






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"Ribbing" Quotes from Famous Books



... taking of this, and filling the bottome of the vessel, they did put certaine ginnes and sweet woods which made an inestimable suffumigation, as of the sweetest past, afterwardes closing the same, and putting downe the couer, both partes being holow, and the lipping and ribbing perforated and pearced through the transparent, Christal cleare and bright, they rendered a pleasant and diuers coulered light, by the which through the smal holes the bathes were lightened, and the heate stil ...
— Hypnerotomachia - The Strife of Loue in a Dreame • Francesco Colonna



Words linked to "Ribbing" :   molestation, rib, tantalization, harassment, framework, tease, teasing



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