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See also: TiB
Translingual
Etymology
Symbol
tib
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English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɪb/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪb
Etymology 1
Abbreviation of tibia.
Noun
tib (plural tibs)
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Etymology 2
Unknown; perhaps from a pet form of Isabel.
Noun
tib (plural tibs)
- (obsolete) A working-class woman.
- (obsolete) A prostitute.
- c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:
- every Coystril that comes inquiring for his Tib
- 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like The Sun:
- But this woman was, he thought, no tib, no purveyor of holy mutton.
- (obsolete) A young girl, a sweetheart.
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Anagrams
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Lapaguía-Guivini Zapotec
Etymology
Akin to Zaniza Zapotec tib.
Numeral
tib
References
- Basic Vocabulary, psge 53
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
Noun
tib f
- medicine (field of study)
Declension
Related terms
- tebîb
- tibî
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Uzbek
Etymology
Noun
tib (plural tiblar)
Related terms
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English tubbe.
Pronunciation
Noun
tib (plural tibbès)
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 72
Zaniza Zapotec
Etymology
Akin to Lapaguía-Guivini Zapotec tib.
Numeral
tib
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