Citations:jibbon

English citations of jibbon

a spring onion

• 1955, Rhys Davies, The Collected Stories of Rhys Davies:

  Jibbons - the son of old Pugh Jibbons, so called because he always declared that jibbons (that being the local name for spring onions) cured every common ailment in man - leaned against the cart waiting for her. This was almost a […]

• 2017 January 31, Emma Kennedy, Shoes for Anthony: A Novel, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 11:

  'A slice of bread and ... get me some jibbons from the veg box, Ant.' I slid backwards from the table and pulled out two long spring onions from a tangle of muddied home-grown vegetables. I passed them up to Mam, who quickly took her […]

• 2011 October 21, Katherine Knight, Spuds, Spam and Eating For Victory: Rationing in the Second World War, The History Press, →ISBN, page 18:

  ... onions which chilled the throat (jibbons we called them) and deep purple flesh of beetroot fleetingly reminding us of meat. In autumn we finished our meal with blackberry pudding or wimberry pie, whichever fruit our eager indigo fingers […]

• 1990, Nikolas Coupland, Alan Richard Thomas, English in Wales: Diversity, Conflict, and Change, Multilingual Matters, →ISBN, page 112:

  ... jibbon ( spring onion ) . The nearest Wright ( 1905a ) has to it is gibble ( which like jibbon is obviously a descendant through Old French from Latin cepa ) with a record of that form in Gm as ' seaside plantain ' which I was unable to […]