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NOUNS 4. a goose (obsolete slang) 5. the ear; the tip or lobe of the ear (dialect) 6. the fundament; the anus (dialect) 7. the head (American) 8. weak beer (dialect) VERBS to slip out; to escape unobserved from school or house (school slang) CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY Perhaps the same as Tib, a shortened hypocoristic form of the female name Isabel; now rather rude or slighting (except playfully); also with dim. -y or -ie, Tibbie, a common female name in the north. EXAMPLE (for definition 1) From: Cheshire Gleanings By William E.A. Axon, 1884 William Hornby's Scourge of Drunkenness
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