Ribbing

Definitions: Ribbing

Ribbing

Noun

1. A framework of ribs.

2. The act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances; "he ignored their teases"; "his ribbing was gentle but persistent".

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	A more or less regular corrugation of the surface of timber, caused by differential shrinkage of early wood and late wood. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	Enlarging a heading or drift. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Ribbing

Synonyms: tease (n), teasing (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Ribbing

English words defined with "ribbing": tease, teasing. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ribbing": LIP CUTTER AND SCORER. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Ribbing him rightly! (reference) Ribbing Him Rightly: The Ministry of the Christian Wife (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Ribbing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 56.00% of the time. "Ribbing" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	56%	14	93,893
Noun (singular)	32%	8	124,375
Adjective (general or positive)	12%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	25	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "ribbing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		brinjë (arris, hillside, rib, side). (various references)

Arabic		‏التضليع. (various references)

Bulgarian		ребра (slats), ластик (sling). (various references)

Chinese		取笑. (various references)

Czech		žebroví. (various references)

Danish		ribbort (ribbed band), stribning (laid lines, roping), langsstriber (trash marks), korrugering (corrugation, rippling, washboard, washboarding), aaring. (various references)

Dutch		verfrillen (roping), streperigheid (cannage, roping, tear drop, teariness), nervatuur, langsstrepen (trash marks), geribd werk (washboarding), geribbeld werk (washboarding), gebreide ribboord (ribbed band). (various references)

Finnish		suonitus, lehden suonitus. (various references)

French		sillon, frisure, cotes, cordage, charpente, bord côte (ribbed band). (various references)

German		aufziehend (bringing up, fostering, razzing, rearing, teasingly, twitting). (various references)

Greek		σχοινισμός (roping), σημάδια τριχών (roping), νεύρωση (neurosis), ζώνη (band, belt, cincture, cordon, girdle, sash, shingles, truss, waistband, zone), αυλακιά (groove). (various references)

Hungarian		bordázat (baffle, bands, corrugation, frame, rib, shell). (various references)

Italian		solcatura longitudinale, scanalature longitudinali (roping), scanalatura longitudinale, nervatura (branch, nervation, nerves, nervous system, rib, ribs, veining), costolatura, corrugazioni (washboarding), bordo a costa (ribbed band). (various references)

Korean		늑골을 붙임. (various references)

Pig Latin		ibbingray

Portuguese		vigamento (framing, timber, timbering), suporte (backing, base, basis, brace, bracing, bracket, buttress, carrier, cleat, column, crutch, foot, girdle, hanger, hold, holder, holding, lay over, leg, mounting, pedestal, pillow, pillow block, post, prop, socket, stake, stanchion, stand, stay, stock, stool, supporter, tie-plate), sulcos (furrow, furrows, grooving, photographing), nervuras (veins), nervuraçao, marcas de trincha (photographing, roping), fio levantado (raised grain, washboarding), conjunto de nervuras, cós (waistband), armação (armature, brace, cadre, cage, carcass, casement, cradle, easel, five, frame, framework, hack, rigging, scaffold, setting, skeleton, tackle, truss), "ribbing". (various references)

Russian		ребристость. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zadirkivanje (badinage, pleasantry, twit). (various references)

Spanish		surco longitudinal (flute), ondulado de contracción (washboarding), nerviacion, nervaduras, nervadura (midrib, nerve, rib), estriado (flute, fluted, grooved, rifling, striaded), cordoncillos. (various references)

Swedish		resårstickning. (various references)

Thai		ส่วนของโครงเส้นที่ใช้ในการถักไหมพรม, การหยอกล้อ (chaff, kidology). (various references)

Turkish		kaburgalar şeklinde, kaburgalar (slats), fırça atma (lashing, vituperation), azarlama (blast, castigation, dressing down, lash, rap, rating, rebuke, reprimand, scolding, strafing, upbraiding, vituperation, wigging). (various references)

Ukranian		ребра, ребристість. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ribbing": ribbings. (additional references)
	Words ending with "ribbing": cribbing, dribbing. (additional references)
	Words containing "ribbing": cribbings. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ribbing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dribbig, Rabobank, reebing, ribband, Ribbins, ribin. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "ribbing" (pronounced ri"bing)
3	-b i ng	absorbing, bobbing, bribing, clubbing, curbing, dabbing, describing, disturbing, drubbing, dubbing, ebbing, gabbing, grabbing, hobbing, hobnobbing, jabbing, lobbing, nabbing, prescribing, probing, robbing, rubbing, scrubbing, snubbing, sobbing, stabbing, subbing, subscribing, tabbing, throbbing, transcribing, tubing, webbing.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: bribing.
	Words within the letters "b-b-g-i-i-n-r"
	-2 letters: bring, iring.
	-3 letters: brig, brin, girn, grin, ring.
	-4 letters: bib, big, bin, gib, gin, nib, rib, rig, rin.
	-5 letters: bi, in.
	Words containing the letters "b-b-g-i-i-n-r"
	+1 letter: cribbing, dribbing, ribbings.
	+2 letters: cribbings, dribbling, fribbling, gibbering, rabbiting, ribboning.
	+3 letters: outbribing, scribbling.
	+4 letters: barbarizing, bearbaiting, firebombing, gibberellin, rubberizing, scribblings, subscribing.
	+5 letters: abbreviating, bearbaitings, billboarding, blackbirding, gibberellins.
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