tib
nounEtymology Unknown; perhaps from a pet form of Isabel.
1
Obsolete A working-class woman.
2
Obsolete A prostitute.
- every Coystril that comes inquiring for his Tibc. 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]:
- But this woman was, he thought, no tib, no purveyor of holy mutton.1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like The Sun:
3
Obsolete A young girl, a sweetheart.
- Related terms
- tib out