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单词 to play the gib
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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.).
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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.ivv 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.
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