<span class="searchmatch">Tibbie</span> A diminutive of the female given name Isabel. 2006, Alice Munro, The View from Castle Rock, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 36: Her brothers call Mary...
See also: tibby <span class="searchmatch">Tibbie</span> Rhymes: -ɪbi Tibby A diminutive of the female given name Isabel. A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth. A surname originating...
belly; starved. 1888, James Nicholson, "The Dyspeptic to His Stomach", Wee <span class="searchmatch">Tibbie's</span> Garland, James McGeachy & Co. (1888): For dinner, mutton-chop or steak...
while <span class="searchmatch">Tibbie</span> had been young as a first summer bird. Miss Marigold was to wear the uninteresting garments which so many brides wore now, but <span class="searchmatch">Tibbie</span> herself...
they that never patronize him, Hae nae richt, Tib, to blackguardise him.” <span class="searchmatch">Tibbie</span>. “Blackguardise him! what for no? Is't no thro' him the torrents flow?"...
Be the bye, I wanst knew art ould woman of that name. She was my darling <span class="searchmatch">Tibbie</span>, but a notorious drunkard. 1838, Charles Dickens et al., Bentley's Miscellany[2]...
quotation) 1780, Robert Burns, Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns[2]: --O <span class="searchmatch">Tibbie</span>, I hae seen the day, Ye wadna been sae shy; For laik o' gear ye lightly...
last Teisday or Wednesday, an' <span class="searchmatch">Tibbie</span> gae her a cup o' tea. Chirsty was in Tilliedrum last Tuesday or Wednesday, and <span class="searchmatch">Tibbie</span> gave her a cup of tea. FWOTD...
Mugson had a rich Uncle Archie who had married a lady evangelist. “Aunt <span class="searchmatch">Tibbie</span> is so keen on saving souls,” he told us, “she is positively dangerous. She...
1864, Eliza Tabor, St. Olave's: A Novel, page 18: “Mair wark," replied <span class="searchmatch">Tibbie</span>, looking round on her well-kept pans and candlesticks. 1868, Eneas Sweetland...