Middle English Dictionary Entry
quibibe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | quibibe n. Also quebibe, whibibe, cubebe, cubube, cucube; pl. quibibes, etc. & (errors) quibusks, juybibbes. |
| Etymology | OF cubebe, quibibe, cucube & ML cubeba, cubiba, cucube, quibiba; from Ar. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A Java peppercorn, cubeb; also, coll. cubebs; ?also, zedoary or setwall [quot.: ?a1400].
Associated quotations
- (c1300) Oak Bk.Sou.in Sou.RS 118 : De la bale de Peyuere..Maces, Quibusks, Clowes, [etc.].
- (1313) Invent.Jarrow in Sur.Soc.295 : In j lib. de macez, dim. libr. de quebibbes.
- ?c1335(a1300) Cokaygne (Hrl 913)78 : Trie maces beþ þe flure, Þe rind canel of swet odur, Þe frute gilofre of gode smakke, Of cucubes þer nis no lakke.
- a1350 Ichot a burde in a (Hrl 2253)38 : Ase gromyl in greue grene is þe grone, ase quibibe ant comyn cud is in crone, cud comyn in court, canel in cofre, wiþ gyngyure ant sedewale ant þe gylofre.
- c1330(?c1300) Reinbrun (Auch)p.632 : Gold and seluer þai brouȝte meche..Gingiuer and galingale, Clowes, quibibes, gren de Paris, Pyper and comyn and swet anis.
- (1355-6) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100555 : In una libra de Whibibbes, prec. 4 s.
- 1381 Pegge Cook.Recipes (Dc 257)p.110 : Take the almande mylk and quibibz, macis, and clowys, and boyle hem togedere.
- (1391) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.5222/2 : Clerico speciarie..pro di. lb. macz..clowes..quibibbes.
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.36 : Take wyne greke and do þerto with a porcion of vynegur and flour of canel, hoole clowes, quybibes hoole, and ooþer gode spices.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)237/4 : Do þerto scamonie..cardamomi, cubube.
- ?a1400 Adv.18.5.16 Gloss.(Adv 18.5.16)159 : Cubebe: cetewal.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)6786 : Þe gylofre, quybibbe, and mace, Gyngyuer, comyn ȝauen odour of grace.
- c1400 Femina (Trin-C B.14.40)83 : Macez, quibibz [F quibibz], & cloues gyloffre And of oþer spicez y nowȝ.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)32/22 : The fruyt, the whiche þat is as quybybes [F quibibes, vr. cucubes], þei [the Saracens] clepen Abebissam.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)40a/b : Medle þo þingez þat ar said with..cinamomum & cubube [Ch.(2): quybibes; L cubebe].
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)194b/b : Cubube: Quybibes is þe fruyte of a tree biȝonde þe see, h. & d. temperat.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)421 : Quybybe, spyce: Quiparum.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)208/16 : Make pyement off wyne and of hony and of hote spycis, but most of quibybys.
- c1450 Mandev.(4) (CovCRO Acc.325/1)2029 : Oþere spicis þere beth feele..As..Quibibus and graynes of paradis.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)300/987 : Tak quyte wyne of osay and gynger and clowes..a littell sugre, Juybibbes, beteyne, a littell turmentill, [etc.].
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.16 : Pouder take þo Of clowes, maces and quibibis to.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)714/3 : Hoc quiperium: a quybybe.