sillibouk dial.
Forms: 6 sillibucke, 8 -buck; 7 sillibouke, 9 sylibewk; 8 silli-, 9 sillybauk.
[var. of sillabub; for the ending cf. merribowk.]
A sillabub. Also attrib.
| 1573 Baret Alvearie, A Sillibucke, Lac in ceruisia suffocatum vel ingulatum. 1632 Sherwood, Sillibouke, or sillibub, laict aigre. 1701 W. Baxter Note Horace's Art Poet. 239 Unde et nostrum Sillabub, quod rectius ab agrestibus Sillibuck profertur. 1721 Bailey, Sillibauk, a Sillabub. Lincolnsh. 1819 Paul Bobbin Sequel 40 (E.D.D.), Th'..black two bule'd sylibewk pot. 1866 J. E. Brogden Prov. Lincs., Silly-bauk, a corruption of sillabub. |