英语词汇“to play the gib”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. A cat, esp. a male cat (cf. Gib a male ferret in Chester Gloss.); in later dialectal use, one that has been castrated. to play the gib: (of a woman) to act the cat (see cat and dog n.).

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [noun] > male > castrated

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1541 Schole House of Women sig. B.iv^v Nature she foloweth, and playeth the gyb, And at her husbande, doth barke and ball, As doth the curre.

1600 Wisdome Doctor Dodypoll iii. sig. E1 This is Melpomene that Scottish witch, Whom I will scratche, like to some villanous gibb.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 174 Who..Would..from a bat, a gib, Such deare conceruings hide.

a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Knight of Malta v. ii, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Mmmmm4/1 Wee'l call him Cacodemon, with his block gib there.

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. viii. §1. 199 Male..Dog, Gib, Cock, [etc.].

1804 J. Duncumb Coll. Hist. County Hereford I. 213 Gib, a male cat, castrated.

单词	to play the gib
释义	> as lemmas to play the gib 2. A cat, esp. a male cat (cf. Gib a male ferret in Chester Gloss.); in later dialectal use, one that has been castrated. to play the gib: (of a woman) to act the cat (see cat and dog n.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [noun] > male > castrated gib1541 gib-cat1598 gibbed cat1633 1541 Schole House of Women sig. B.iv^v Nature she foloweth, and playeth the gyb, And at her husbande, doth barke and ball, As doth the curre. 1600 Wisdome Doctor Dodypoll iii. sig. E1 This is Melpomene that Scottish witch, Whom I will scratche, like to some villanous gibb. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 174 Who..Would..from a bat, a gib, Such deare conceruings hide. View more context for this quotation a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Knight of Malta v. ii, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Mmmmm4/1 Wee'l call him Cacodemon, with his block gib there. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. viii. §1. 199 Male..Dog, Gib, Cock, [etc.]. 1804 J. Duncumb Coll. Hist. County Hereford I. 213 Gib, a male cat, castrated. extracted from gibn.¹ < as lemmas
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