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Tibert arch.|ˈtɪbət, ˈtaɪbət|
Also 5 Tybert.
[a. Flem. and Du. Tybert, Tibeert, OFr. Tibert.]
The name of the cat in the apologue of Reynard the Fox; thence, used as a quasi-proper name for any cat, and (as a common noun), a cat. (By Shakespeare identified with Tibalt:—OF. Thibauld, Thibaut, Eng. Theobald, vulgo Tibbald.)
1481Caxton Reynard iii. (Arb.) 6 Wyth this so cam Tybert the catte..and sprang in emonge them. [1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. iv. 18 Is he a man to encounter Tybalt? B. Why what is Tibalt? M. More then Prince of Cats. Ibid. iii. i. 78 Tybalt, you Rat-catcher, will you walke? Tib. What woulds thou haue with me? Mer. Good King of Cats, nothing but one of your nine liues.] 1616B. Jonson Epigr. ad fin., The Voyage itself 135 Cats there lay divers had been flea'd and roasted... But 'mongst these Tiberts, who do you think there was? 1672Dryden Assignation i. i, His violin..squeaks so lewdly, that Sir Tibert in the gutter mistakes him for his mistress. 1872M. Collins Pr. Clarice II. iv. 61 He'd have killed that tibert, Tybalt, as willingly as he'd have killed a cat. |