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From gib + cat.
Noun
gib-cat (plural gib-cats)
- (obsolete) A male cat, especially an old or castrated one.
c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 49, column 2:I am as Melancholly as a Gyb-Cat, or a lugg'd Beare.
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