▪ I. tripe1
(traɪp)
Also 5 Sc. trip, 5–6 trippe, 6 tryppe, 5–8 trype.
[a. OF. tripe, trippe entrails of an animal (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), mod.F. tripe (whence Sp., Pg. tripa): ulterior source uncertain.]
1. The first or second stomach of a ruminant, esp. of the ox, prepared as food; formerly including also the entrails of swine and fish.
plain tripe is the first stomach, paunch, or rumen, honeycomb tripe the second, or reticulum.
a. With a and pl. as an individual thing. Now rare. (Usually plural.)
| a 1300 Sat. People Kildare xviii. in E.E.P. (1862) 155 Hail be ȝe hokesters dun bi þe lake wiþ..tripis and kine fete and schepen heuedes. 14.. Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 741/30, 31 Hoc strutum, Hec tripa, a tripe. c 1483 Caxton Dialogues 26/27 We shall breke our fast with trippes, Of the lyver, of the longhe. 1533 Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) 22 The inwarde of beastes, as trypes and chytterlynges. 1556 Withals Dict. (1568) 48 b/2 Omasum, is one of the foure partes of the beastes mawe very fatte, calde a tripe. 1655 Moufet & Bennet Health's Impr. (1746) 201 The Taste of Tripes did seem so delicate to the Romans, that they often killed Oxen for the Tripes sake. 1767 Sterne Tr. Shandy IX. xxi, ‘I'm loaded with tripes’, says the second. 1880 R. Owen in Sanctorale Catholicum Mar. 133 Then the priest, bearing tripes hot from the spit, approached as if to give to Pionius. |
b. collect. sing. as the name of this substance.
| 13.. K. Alis. 1574 (Bodl. MS.), Ribaudes festeþ also wiþ tripe. c 1430 Two Cookery-bks. i. 18 Trype of Turbut or of Codelynge. Take þe Mawes of Turbut, Haddok, or Codelyng, & pyke hem clene [etc.]. 1682 Dryden Abs. & Achit. ii. 473 To what would he on quail and pheasant swell That ev'n on tripe and carrion could rebel? 1771 Goldsm. Haunch of Venison 82 At the bottom [of the table] was tripe, in a swinging tureen. 1840 Dickens Barn. Rudge xxxi, A steaming supper of boiled tripe and onions. |
c. ‖ tripe(s) à la mode de Caen, a traditional French dish of tripe cooked with carrots, onions, and cow heels in cider or white wine. Also
tripe à la mode (du pays).
| 1859 Thackeray Virgin. II. iii. 26 ‘And an orchard..and a dish of tripe à la mode du pays!’.. Museau would..return to the subject of Normandy, and cyder, and ‘trippes [sic] à la mode de Caen.’ 1936 E. Waugh Waugh in Abyssinia ii. 71 From time to time she would placard the town with news of some special delicacy—Grand Souper. Tripes à la mode de Caen. 1968 E. Hyams Mischief Makers ii. 20 An improbable garden-restaurant where we sat eating tripe à la mode. 1970 Simon & Howe Dict. Gastronomy 376/2 The classical way of preparing tripe in France is Tripe à la mode de Caen. |
2. a. The intestines, bowels, guts, as members of the body; hence, the paunch or belly including them.
arch. or
low. Commonly in
pl.| c 1470 Henryson Orpheus & Eurydice 298 Ane grysly grype,..with his bill his baly thro[w] can bore, Baith maw, mydred, hart, lever, & tripe [v.rr. trype, trip], He ruggit owt. a 1529 Skelton Ph. Sparowe 307 Of Inde the gredy grypes Myght tere out all thy trypes! c 1645 Howell Lett. (1650) II. lv. 71 The Turke when he hath his tripe full of pelaw, or of Muton and Rice, will go to natures cellar. 1774 J. Collier Mus. Trav. (1785) 82 Dead cats, rotten puppies, the tripe of a dead horse. 1806–7 J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) xx. 250 Poor Margery's tripes Are the martyrs of gripes. |
b. Applied opprobriously or contemptuously to a person; also
bag of tripe.
| 1595 Enq. Tripe-wife (1881) 150 Saist thou me so, thou Tripe, thou hated scorne? 1614 B. Jonson Bart. Fair iv. v, Alice. Thou Sow of Smithfield, thou. Ursula. Thou tripe of Turnebull. 1614, 1785 Tripe or Trillibub [see trillibub]. 1822 Cobbett Weekly Reg. 349 Any great, bloated, squeaking, bag of tripe. 1825 Jamieson s.v. Trypal, A tall, meagre person is denominated ‘a long tripe o' a fallow’. |
3. transf. and
fig. (in various applications). Now applied
esp. to artistic work, opinions, conversation, or the like: worthless stuff, rubbish.
| 1676 D'Urfey Mad. Fickle ii. i. (1677) 11 You Dog,..Udsbores, I'le beat thee into a Tripe. a 1704 T. Brown Contin. Quaker's Serm. Wks. 1709 III. ii. 4 Sowse us there⁓fore, 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 Cornh. 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 [see codswallop]. 1973 W. H. Canaway Harry doing Good i. ii. 22 The group of girls who were watching some tripe on television. |
4. attrib. and
Comb., as
tripe-broth,
tripe fritter,
tripe sausage,
tripe soup;
tripe-gut;
tripe-cart,
tripe-house,
tripe-shop;
tripe-dealer,
tripe-dresser,
tripe-monger,
tripe-seller,
tripe-selling;
tripe-like,
tripe-visaged adjs.;
tripe-cheeks, a person with coarse blowzy cheeks;
tripe-club, a society which meets to eat tripe;
tripe-hound slang, (
a) an unpleasant or contemptible person; also
spec. a newspaper reporter or an informant; (
b) a contemptuous term for a dog;
spec. in
Austral. and
N.Z., a sheep-dog;
tripe-man, one who prepares and sells tripe as a business;
tripe-stone Min., see
quot. 1816;
† tripe-wife n., a female tripe-dresser; hence
† tripe-wife v., trans. to make into, or like, a tripe-wife;
tripe-woman = tripe-wife n.| 1747 tr. Astruc's Fevers 308 Physicians prescribe on this occasion anodyne lenient clysters of *tripe-broth. |
| 1912 Dollar Mag. Dec. 182 Neither of us had seen a *tripe-cart before. |
| 1599 Porter Angry Wom. Abingd. H iij b, What needst thou to care, whipper-Ienny, *Tripe-cheekes. |
| 1710 (title) The Swan *Tripe-Club: A Satyr on the High-Flyers. |
| 1868 Daily News 19 June, The tripes of bullocks are purchased wholesale by the *tripe-dressers. |
| 1906 Breakfast Menu S.Y. ‘Argonaut’ 9 July, *Tripe Fritters. |
| 1659 Torriano, Bottaccio, the greatest *tripe-gut in an ox. |
| 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. |
| 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 941 Inflammation of the stomach and bowels accompanied by peculiar *tripe-like wrinklings of the mucous membrane. |
| 1621 Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 114 Cleon the Currier, and Agoracritus the *Tripe-man. 1851 Mayhew Lond. Labour II. 7/2 These portions [of the bullock] form what is styled the tripe-man's portion. |
| 1621 Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 540 He..vseth κοιλίας belly, or, Inwards of a Beast, as speaking vnto him, whom hee maketh a *Tripe-monger. |
| 1966 P. V. Price France ii. 219 Andouilles limousines. *Tripe sausages, usually served grilled. 1981 ‘M. Hebden’ Pel is Puzzled viii. 73 Andouillettes, the tripe sausage of the region. |
| 1597 A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 54 b/2 A *Tripe-seller..had his membrane Dura mater cleft asunder. |
| 1621 Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 540 Hee..saith, For not Tithing thy Tripes, intending..that *Tripe-selling was his raising trade. |
| 1829 Marryat F. Mildmay xx, My mother keeps a *tripe-shop. |
| a 1735 Arbuthnot Harmony in Uproar Misc. Wks. 1751 II. 34 To invite you to eat a *Tripe-soup and Fricassey of Sheep's Trotters. |
| 1816 Cleaveland Min. 122 Concreted sulphate of barytes... These stalactites..from some resemblance to the intestines, have received the name of *tripe stone. |
| 1597 Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, v. iv. 9 Thou damn'd *Tripe-visag'd Rascall. |
| 1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. 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. a 1652 Brome City Wit iv. ii, Was not thy mother a notorious Tripe-wife? |
| 1647 Ward Simp. Cobler 26 When I consider how women..haue *tripe-wifed themselves with their cladments. |
| 1598 Florio, Trippara, a *tripe-woman. |
Hence
† triped (
traɪpt)
a. Obs. rare, made into or dressed as tripe.
| 1597 Bk. Cookerie B ij b, Triped mutton. Take a paunche of a Sheepe faire scowred [etc.]. |
Add:
[3.] b. attrib. passing into
adj. Worthless, rubbishy, trashy.
colloq.| 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. |
▪ II. † tripe2 Obs. Forms: 5–6
trype, 6
tryp,
trip, (7
trape), 7–8
tripe.
[a. OF. tripe (1374 in Godef. Compl.; cf. also triperie 1275), ‘étoffe de laine ou de fil travaillée comme le velours’; according to Littré, so called from its resemblance to the interior of the paunch of ruminants.] An imitation velvet of wool or thread; ‘mock-velvet’, velveteen, fustian. Also
tripe of velvet (F.
tripe de velours), and
tripe velvet; hence also
† triped (
trypit,
tript)
a. applied to velvet.
| c 1430 Brut 459 Clothed in scarlet, with furred hodes, and round standynge cappes of Trype. 1542–3 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. VIII. 176 Ane elne trype velvet, price xiiij s. 1565 in Hay Fleming Reform. Scotl. (1910) 609 Twa stuillis coverit with trypit wellwott. 1598 Florio, Trippa, a kinde of tripe veluet that they make womens saddles with, called fustian of Naples. 1612 Inv. in A. M{supc}Kay Hist. Kilmarnock (1880) 308 Four cuschownis of tripe veluet. 1656 Acts & Ordin. Parl. c. 20 Rates (Scobell) 467 Fustians called..Naples Fustians, Trape, or Velure plain. [cf. 1660 Act 12 Chas. II, c. 4 (Schedule of Rates) Naples fustians tript.] 1714 Fr. Bk. of Rates 80 Tripes of Velvet, per Piece of 10 Ells 03 10. |