1533 J. Heywood (title) A mery play betwene Iohan Iohan the husbande, Tyb his wyfe, and syr Johan the preest.

a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) i. iii. sig. B.ij. (stage direct.) Tibet Talk apace, sowyng.

a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) ii. iii. sig. C.iiij^v Who shall then know our Tib Talke apace trow ye?

1568 Newe Comedie Iacob & Esau v. vi. sig. G.j What saiest thou thou Tib?

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 71 A coy tyb, as vagabund in this my segnorye wandring.

1589 R. Robinson Golden Mirrour sig. H The brauest tipling tib, that is within the towne.

1618 W. Hornby Scourge Drunkennes (1859) 19 Where tinkers and their tibs doe oft repaire.

1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 1226 A Tib, mulier sordida.

1689 W. Winstanley Poor Robin sig. C5 When Tib and Tom upon a Holy-day, Make fair assault on such good things as they.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Tib, a young lass.

a1658 J. Cleveland To his Hermaphrodite in Wks. (1687) 21 That Gamester needs must overcome, That can play both with Tib and Tom.

1662 J. Cotgrave Wits Interpreter (ed. 2) 365 The Ace is called Tib, the Knave Tom, and the four of Trumps Tidie.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xvi. 71/2 The Ace is 15 in hand and 18 in play, which is called Tib.

1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. v. 114 Tib, which went for fifteen.

a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush v. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Mm3/1 Mergery-praters, Rogers, And Tibs o'th the Buttry.

1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew ii. sig. F3 Here's Grunter and Bleater, with Tib of the Buttry, And Margery Prater, all drest without sluttry.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Tib of the Buttery, a Goose.

1725 New Canting Dict. Song xviii On Redshanks, and Tibs thou shalt ev'ry Day dine.

1793 M. J. Holroyd in Girlhood of M.J.H. (1896) 243 Papa says he will have a Pole put to the Tib, that it may be drawn by the two horses, like a Curricle.

1794 M. J. Holroyd in Girlhood of M.J.H. (1896) 27 June 289 The Aunts go out in the Tib, which just suits them.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Tib-cat, a female cat, a Tabitha.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) Saint Tibb's evening, the evening of the last day, or day of judgement; he will pay you on St. Tibb's eve (Irish).

1870 E. C. Brewer Dict. Phrase & Fable St. Tib's Eve, never.

1893 in Notes & Queries 8th Ser. IV. 507, etc.

1893 Newcastle Weekly Chron. Suppl. 23 Dec. 3 There is no such saint in the calendar as St. Tib. [But see note in Etymol.] Similar expressions to ‘Tib's Eve’ are ‘At Latter Lammas’, and ‘When two Sundays meet’, the time in each case being never.

1902 Notes & Queries 9th Ser. IX. 109/1 ‘Yes..it will be on Tib's Eve, neither before nor after Christmas’, expressing thus his incredulity as to the event ever coming off.

1945 ‘C. Brand’ Green for Danger iii. 38 The fractured tib. and fib. was agreeably surprised to see her on the ward.

1966 I. Jefferies House-surgeon vi. 120 Rapak operated on the compound tib and fib, plating the tibia.

1971 Daily Tel. 8 Jan. (Colour Suppl.) 6/2 Fractures of the skull or of ‘tib and fib’ (tibia and fibula).

1853 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. ii. 18 Tibbing out and receiving the penalty therefor.

1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xli. 361 I used what they call to tib out and run down to a public-house.

1840 J. T. J. Hewlett Peter Priggins iii, in New Monthly Mag. A trick acquired from tibbling-out down the lane, i.e. Charterhouse Lane, to the Red Cow.