i was listening to says you in the barn sunday night. a quiz game that they play each week is one where the host gives a strange word and one team gives several definitions, one of which is correct and the other team must guess what is the true meaning.
last night the word was jibb, which turned out to mean "to milk a cow out completely." i think they should use the word in a sentence or at least say where they found these words because it was hard to know how to use the word in context. but google books seems to suggest the word "jibbings" was in some sort of usage in scotland, meaning the last, richest milk.
i wanted to try out google's ngram viewer with this but i found out that jibb is an alternate spelling of jib - the part of a ship, and is also something bad (i can't quite determine what) that a horse can do, and, more recently, it refers to a trick done on a snowboard.
here's a sentence that i think is correct:
the light on top of our milking machines flashes when the cow is giving her jibbings.
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