gib-cat
nounEtymology From gib + cat.
1
Obsolete A male cat, especially an old or castrated one.
- I am as Melancholly as a Gyb-Cat, or a lugg'd Beare.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 49, column 2:
- Derived terms
- gibship