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Word watching answers: February 24, 2006 - The Times
TRILLIBUB. (a) The entrails of an animal , especially in the phrase tripes and trillibubs or tricks and trillibubs. The etymology of this word is obscure (as are the entrails themselves).
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trillibub, n. meanings, etymology and more - Oxford English Dictionary
The earliest known use of the noun trillibub is in the early 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for trillibub is from 1519, in the writing of William Horman, ...
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trillibub - definition and meaning - Wordnik
trillibub: Tripe; figuratively, anything trifling or worthless.
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trillibub
trillibub Obs. exc. dial. (ˈtrɪlɪbʌb) Forms: 6 trylly-, trylybubbe, 7 trilla-, 6–9 trillibub; 6 trully-, trullibub(be, 7– trullibub. Cf. trollibobs, -bags. [Origin obscure.] Chiefly (now always) pl.: Entrails, the inwards of an animal. Often in the alliterative collocation tripes and trillibubs.1519...
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Digging Up Old Slang For Body Parts - Dictionary.com
Trillybubs, trolly-bags. There's something musical about trillibubs. Whatever could they be? Fluttery, flirty, long-lashed peepers? Maybe. But, ...
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meaning of trillibubs | windowthroughtime
A butchers' term which moved into general idiomatic use was trillibubs. Normally, conjoined with tripes or tricks, as in tripes and trillibubs ...
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30 Old (and Useful) Slang Names for Parts of the Body - Mental Floss
26. Trillibubs. Trillibubs (or trolly-bags as they also became known) are guts or intestines. The term was originally used by butchers, usually ...
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trollibags | trollibobs, n. meanings, etymology and more
The earliest known use of the noun trollibags is in the 1820s. OED's earliest evidence for trollibags is from 1824, in the writing of John Mactaggart, engineer ...
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Page:Farmer - Slang and its analogues past and present - Wikisource
Trillibub, subs. (old).—1. Tripe; hence (2) anything of trifling ... There cannot be an ancient tripe and trillibub in the town, but thou art ...
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tripe n. 1 - Green's Dictionary of Slang
tripe and trillibub (n.) (also tripes and trollybags. ...trullibubs) [SE tripes and trillibubs, animal intestines]. a nickname for a fat person. 1614. 1650 ...
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Bartholomew Fair: Quarlous' Monologue
There cannot be an ancient tripe or trillibub i' the town, but thou art straight nosing it, and 'tis a fine occupation thou'lt confine thyself to when thou ...
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trollibags
ˈtrollibags, -bobs dial. Also trolle-, trolly-, -bags, -bods. [Variant of trillibub.] Entrails, intestines: generally with tripes.1824 Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl. s.v. Raens, And when he fins a sheep fa'en aval, Her trolly-bags he can unravel. a 1825 Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Trollibags s., the intesti...
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tripe
▪ 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 inclu...
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nose
▪ I. nose, n. (nəʊz) Forms: 1–2 nosu, 3–4 nos, 5–6 noos, 5 noose, noys(e, 6 noise, nois, noss, 3– nose. [OE. nosu fem. = OFris. nosi, nose, nosa, nos, MDu. nose, nuese, neuse (Du. neus), MLG. nose, nose; MSw., Sw., and Norw. nos (nōs) snout, muzzle. The relationship to OE. nasu nase and to nese is n...
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