1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iv. vii. sig. K4^v Then you are an Otter, and a Shad, a Whit, A very Tim . View more context for this quotation

1673 S'too him Bayes 73.

1936 Discovery Oct. 315/1 The ‘talking-clock’ from which, merely by dialling T-I-M, every telephone user can now learn the exact time.

1939 Times 23 Mar. 13/5 Public appreciation of the service was shown by the 18,000,000 or so calls a year that were made on ‘Tim’.

1951 W. de la Mare Winged Chariot 7 Though every minute of your life's your own,..you ring up TIM; consult the telephone.

1978 E. St. Johnston One Policeman's Story ii. 41 Always receptive to innovations and new ideas, he [sc. Sir Donald Banks] introduced TIM, 999, Greetings Telegrams and the neo-Georgian style of post office buildings.

1958 C. Tully Passed to You xxii. 92 You'll go a long way before you meet a better bunch than the Tims of Parkhead.

1973 ‘J. Patrick’ Glasgow Gang Observed xiv. 126 Big Johnny, later identified as ‘a Tim’.

1982 P. Turnbull Dead Knock iv. 65 I had..four daughters. I gave them all sensible names, Orange names, so nobody could mistake them for fucking Papes... The fourth,..she goes Green.., she goes and marries a fucking Tim... She's probably pregnant by now, they breed like rabbits, the Tims.

1989 J. Kelman Disaffection 283 And as I say Paddy they're all fucking Orangemen bitter as fuck. Wouldni let a tim in the house.