tib of the buttery
" A goose; tib, a young lass; also, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a wanton. St-Tibb's Evening, the evening of the last day, or Day of Judgment. "He will pay you on St. Tibb's Eve.""
-Capt. Francis Grose's A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1796.
-Capt. Francis Grose's A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1796.
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