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单词 tibert
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Tibertn.

/ˈtɪbət//ˈtʌɪbət/
Forms: Also Middle English Tybert.
Etymology: < the name of Tibert, the cat in the apologue of Reynard the Fox, < Flemish and Dutch Tybert, Tibeert, Old French Tibert.By Shakespeare identified with Tibalt, < Old French Thibauld, Thibaut, English Theobald, vulgo Tibbald.
archaic.
Used as a quasi-proper name for any cat, and (as a common noun), a cat.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [noun]
cata800
bad?a1325
gibc1400
baudrons?a1500
house cat?1527
puss-cata1529
puss1533
puss1598
mewer1611
mewler1611
Tibert1616
malkina1627
grimalkin1630
meower1632
miauler1632
pussycat1698
pussy1699
tigerkin1849
moggie1911
pussums1912
mog1926
1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 7 Wyth this so cam Tybert the catte..and sprang in emonge them.
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. iii. 17 Is he a man to encounter Tybalt? Ben: Why what is Tybalt? Mer: More than the prince of cattes. View more context for this quotation
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. i. 74 Tibalt, you ratcatcher, will you walke? Tib. What wouldst thou haue with me? M. Good King of Cats, nothing but one of your nine liues. View more context for this quotation]
1616 B. Jonson Epigrammes cxxxiii, in Wks. I. 817 Cats there lay diuers had beene flead, and rosted... But 'mong'st these Tiberts, who do' you thinke there was?
1673 J. Dryden Assignation i. i. 2 His Violin..squeaks so lewdly, that Sir Tibert in the gutter mistakes him for his Mistress.
1872 M. Collins Princess Clarice II. iv. 61 He'd have killed that tibert, Tybalt, as willingly as he'd have killed a cat.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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