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trillibub Obs. exc. dial.|ˈtrɪlɪbʌb|
Forms: 6 trylly-, trylybubbe, 7 trilla-, 6–9 trillibub; 6 trully-, trullibub(be, 7– trullibub. Cf. trollibobs, -bags.
[Origin obscure.]
Chiefly (now always) pl.: Entrails, the inwards of an animal.
Often in the alliterative collocation tripes and trillibubs.
1519W. Horman Vulg. 155 b, Let vs haue trypis, chetter⁓lyngis, and tryllybubbys ynough [aulicoctia ad satietatem]. 1542Boorde Dyetary xvii. (1870) 276 All the inwardes of beestes and of fowles, as the..trypes, and trylybubbes. 1599Massinger, etc. Old Law iii. ii, I hope my guts will hold, and that's e'en all A gentleman can look for of such trilli⁓bubs. 1785Grose Dict. Vulg. T., Tripes and trullibubs, the entrails, also a jeering appellation for a fat man. 1823Moor Suffolk Words, Trullibubs, a low coarse term among butchers for the entrails generally of animals. 1883Hampsh. Gloss., Trullibubs, the intestines.
b. Applied to a person or animal. (See also Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. trolly-bags.)
1600Dekker Gentle Craft iv, Run wife, bid your maids, your trullibubs, make ready my fine mens breakfasts. 1614B. Jonson Bart. Fair i. iii, There cannot be an ancient Tripe or Trillibub i' the Towne, but thou art straight nosing it. 1785[see above].
†c. In alliterative collocation tricks and trillibubs. In quot. 1632, trilly bubkins is a nonce diminutive. Obs.
1632Brome Novella i. ii, Such Curles, such Purles, such Tricks and Trilly bubkins As Mayds would turne no Mayds almost to see 'hem! 1637Shirley Hyde Park iii. ii, I for⁓give thee, and forget thy tricks And trillabubs... Wenches must have their ways. |