Other forms: kibbles
Kibble is dry pellets of pet food. A bag of kibble, dry kibble, mix the kibble.
It is made by extrusion — a dough forced through a die and cut, then dried — which is why the pieces are so uniform. Dry food keeps well and is cheaper than wet, and the argument about which is better for cats and dogs runs on without settling. The word is chiefly American; British packaging usually says dry food. Note that kibble also means to grind coarsely.
1nounkibbleDry pellets of pet food.
“She poured a bowl of kibble for the dog and filled up its water.”
kibble is a pet food.
The origin is uncertain, from an eighteenth-century Shropshire dialect verb meaning to grind coarsely. Whatever its source, the pet food sense is twentieth-century and American.
unknown; verb sense c. 1790, Shropshire dialect, perhaps variant of chip or derived from Etymology 2 below.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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