gib —
“A,”
HAMLET, iii. 4. 190
;
“as melancholy as a gib cat,”
1 HENRY IV., i. 2. 72.
“A gib or a gib cat” is an old male cat, —gib being the contraction of Gilbert
(“A gibbe
[or old male cat].
Macou.”
Cotgrave's Fr. and Engl.
Dict.
“A Gib-cat, Catus felis
mas.”
Coles's Lat. and Engl.
Dict.
). Ray gives
“As melancholy as a gibb'd [a corruption of gib] cat.”
Proverbs, p. 224, ed. 1768.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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