# gibnut
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Belizean Creole gibnat, gibnut, givnat, from Miskito ibina, ibihna, ibinha.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɡɪbnʌt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈɡɪbˌnʌt/
* Hyphenation: gib‧nut

### Noun

gibnut (plural gibnuts)
* (Belize) A paca (“a large rodent of the genus Cuniculus native to Central America and South America, which has dark brown or black fur, a white or yellowish underbelly and rows of white spots along the sides”).
    Synonyms: gibbonet, jungle rat, royal rat
** 1883, Archibald Robertson Gibbs, “The Labour Question—Climate—Productions—Flora and Fauna—and General Features”, in British Honduras: An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Colony from Its Settlement, 1670. […], London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 185:The woods abound in game and wild animals, the small red deer, ten varieties of wild hog, the peccary (Dicotyles labiatus) and waree (a mere variety), the paca (Cœlogenys subnigra), a burrowing animal locally called gibbonet or gibnut, considered good eating; [...]
** 1884 August 23, “In the Honduras forests”, in D. P. Kingsley, editor, Grand Junction News, volume II, number 44, Grand Junction, Colo.: Price & Kingsley, →OCLC, page 4, column 3:We have some splendid game in these woods, among which is the gibnut, a beautiful little animal, which, when cooked, tastes very much like a nice, fat little pig. [From the New York Sun.]
** 1895 May 16, T[homas] Gann, “[Notes on the Exploration of Two Mounds in British Honduras]”, in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London, volume XV (Second Series), London: Printed by Nichols and Sons, for the Society of Antiquaries [of London], […], →OCLC, page 433:On digging in the earth in this cave, we found the arm and leg bones of a single skeleton. [...] We also found the lower jaw of a gibnut and of another small rodent, but no other bones.
** 1918, Thomas W[illiam] F[rancis] Gann, “Description of Mounds [Mound No. 41]”, in The Maya Indians of Southern Yucatan and Northern British Honduras (Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin; 64), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 138:While hunting for a gibnut he traced one to a hole in the ground; on poking a stick into this hole, he was astonished on withdrawing it to find that he had brought out on its end a small painted pottery cylinder. The hole on being enlarged proved to be the entrance to a chultun, one of those curious underground chambers cut in the limestone rock found throughout Yucatan and the northern part of British Honduras, especially in the neighborhood of ruins.
** 1993, Richard Harris, Stacy Ritz, edited by Joanna Pearlman, The Maya Route: The Ultimate Guidebook: Yucatan, Belize, Guatemala, Cancún, Berkeley, Calif.: Ulysses Press, →ISBN, page 359:One reason people come to Belize is for adventure. That's why you might want to try gibnut, bamboo chicken and cow's foot soup.
** 2009, Joan Fry, How to Cook a Tapir: A Memoir of Belize (At Table series), Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 77:The three men had bagged an iguana and two gibnuts. Except for the spots on their backs, the gibnuts resembled twenty-pound guinea pigs.
** 2009 December 7, Jules Vasquez, “Illegal Xatero in Chiquibul Busted on Camera”, in 7 News Belize‎, archived from the original on 5 January 2010:But what he knows to do is hunt gibnut as was amply demonstrated when he opened his sack. A pair of gibnuts but he didn't use the gun on them, he smoked them out of a tree bark and used the machete and bundled them for good measure with a few xate leaves.
** 2011, Helen R. Haines, “A Rat by Any Other Name: Conflicting Definitions of ‘Dinner’ in Belize, Central America”, in Helen R. Haines, Clare A. Sammells, editors, Adventures in Eating: Anthropological Experiences in Dining from Around the World, Boulder, Colo.: University Press of Colorado, →ISBN, section I (The Main Course), page 45:In the case of gibnut (Agouti paca), however, my memories are occupied predominately with my efforts to avoid eating this creature.

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### References

* ↑ Renate J[ohanna] Mayr (2014) “From Crown Colony to Independence to Modern Nation”, in Belize: Tracking the Path of Its History: […], Zürich, Münster: LIT Verlag, →ISBN, section 5.2 (Belize Creole (Belize Kriol English)), page 318: “Among the many words borrowed from the Miskito Coast Creole I have been able to identify are [...] the names of animals (gibnat, for the Belizean rodent "gibnut" from the Miskito ibinha), [...]”.
* ↑ Yvette Herrera, Myrna Manzanares, Silvana Woods, Cynthia Crosbie, and Ken Decker, compilers and editors (2007) “givnat (var: gibnat)”, in Kriol–Inglish Dikshineri; English–Kriol Dictionary‎, Belize City, Belize: Belize Kriol Project, published 2009, →ISBN, page 124: “givnat (var. gibnat) [...] [<Misk. 'ibina, ibihna']”.

### Further reading

* paca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Bitung, tubing, Tingub