Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tom-cat, especially an old tom-cat: often implying castration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A male cat, esp. an old one. See 1st
gib . n.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
male cat , especially anold one.
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Examples
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Tybalt, Thibert or Tybert (who is also executioner), various forms of Theobald in the old Beast Epic; as opposed to Gilbert the gib-cat, either a tom-cat or a gibbed (castrated) cat.
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And she was lifting up her head and singing a song, and the sound of it as melancholy as a gib-cat in
Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Gilbert the gib-cat, either a tom-cat or a gibbed (castrated) cat.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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