1677 T. D'Urfey Madam Fickle ii. 11 You Dog,..Udsbores, I'le beat thee into a Tripe.

a1704 T. Brown Contin. Quaker's Serm. in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) i. 156 Sowse us, therefore, in the Powdering-Tub of thy Mercy, that we may be Tripes fit for the Heavenly Table.

1892 Spectator 24 Dec. 930/2 This book..very vulgar..it is a dish of literary and artistic ‘tripe-and-onions’.

1895 Crockett in Cornhill Mag. Oct. 341 He swore that he could make a song..that would be worth a shopful of such ‘tripe’.

1902 ‘T. Le Breton’ Mod. Christian viii. 80 She puts in six or seven pages of her own tripe.

1927 C. Connolly Let. Aug. in Romantic Friendship (1975) 313 Ordinary talk is such ghastly tripe once voice and gesture are removed.

1935 I. Miller School Tie xiv. 277 ‘I've tried hard, sir; really I have.’ ‘Tripe! You've tried to get out of work.’

1952 W. Stevens Let. 24 Oct. (1967) 763 Non-objective art without an aesthetic basis seems to be an especially unpleasant kettle of tripe.

1963 Radio Times 17 Oct. 52/2 Just branding a programme as ‘rubbish’, ‘tripe’, or—there are a lot of these—‘codswallop’, gives little indication of what moved the viewer to write.

1973 W. H. Canaway Harry doing Good i. ii. 22 The group of girls who were watching some tripe on television.

1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. I3^v What needst thou to care, whipper-Ienny, Tripe-cheeke.

1710 (title) The Swan Tripe-Club: A Satyr on the High-Flyers.

1923 J. Manchon Le Slang 320 Tripe-hound,..un sale cabot, un clebs à poubelles.

1928 D. L. Sayers Unpleasantness at Bellona Club xv. 176 If you'll call off your tripe-hounds, we'll let you have an interview and a set of photographs.

1933 L. G. D. Acland in Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 23 Dec. 15/7 Tripe-hound, slang for sheep dog. This was common on South Canterbury stations in the 'nineties, and I always thought it a New Zealand word until I came across it in an English novel the other day, ‘Early Closing’, I think. In the novel the word was applied to a spaniel!

1935 J. Buchan House of Four Winds iv. 98 If your tripe-hounds had been worth their keep they would have seen me meet him.

1937 N. Marsh Vintage Murder viii. 87 You damned little tripe-hound.

1946 B. Marshall George Brown's Schooldays 123 Draw, you sorry tripehound, draw.

1966 ‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 111 Tripe-hound, a mongrel dog. Also applied to a racing greyhound that persists in putting up a disappointing performance.

1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 114 Cleon the Currier, and Agoracritus the Tripe-man.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 7/2 These portions [of the bullock],..form what is styled the tripe-man's portion.

1816 P. Cleaveland Elem. Treat. Mineral. & Geol. 122 Concreted sulphate of barytes... These stalactites..from some resemblance to the intestines, have received the name of tripe stone.

1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Tripiére, a trype wife.

1595 Enq. Tripe-wife (1881) 146 I haue heard him that trickt the Tripe-wife sweare, till her husband abused him.

a1652 R. Brome City Wit iv. ii. sig. E6, in Five New Playes (1653) Was not thy mother a notorious Tripe-wife?

1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 26 When I consider how women..have tripe-wifed themselves with their cladments.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Trippara, a tripe-woman.

1597 Bk. Cookerie B ij b Triped mutton. Take a paunche of a Sheepe faire scowred [etc.].

1927 Melody Maker Apr. 306/3 The indifference of an ignorant public..has helped to popularise ‘tripe’ melodies, whilst wrecking better-class compositions.

1989 Observer 15 Jan. 15/4 It is strange..that the Government, which is pledged to moral uplift in public life.., should be opening the door to yet more brutalising influences in the form of tripe television.

c1430 Brut 459 Clothed in scarlet, with furred hodes, and round standynge cappes of Trype.

1542–3 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1908) VIII. 176 Ane elne trype velvet, price xiiij s.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Trippa, a kinde of tripe veluet that they make womens saddles with, called fustian of Naples.

1612 Inventory in A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock (1880) 308 Four cuschownis of tripe veluet.

1656 Acts & Ordin. Parl. (Scobell) c. 20. 467 Fustians called..Naples Fustians, Trape, or Velure plain.

cf. 1660 Act 12 Chas. II c. 4 Sched. Naples fustians tript.]

1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 80 Tripes of Velvet, per Piece of 10 Ells 03 10.

1565 in D. H. Fleming Reformation in Scotl. (1910) 609 Twa stuillis coverit with trypit wellwott.