antedating tib (verb) 1839

[Wilson Gray]

The OED has only _tib_, when all the examples show _tib out_? How can
this be? (Asking merely out of curiosity; not trying to impugn
anyone's - or anything's - authority.)

-Wilson
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:
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> OED tib, v.
> School slang
> [Origin unascertained]
> intr. To slip out; to escape unobserved from school or house; to break bounds.
> Also tibble v., in same sense.
> 1840 J. T. J. HEWLETT P. Priggins iii, A trick acquired from tibbling-out down
> the lane, i.e. Charterhouse Lane, to the Red Cow. 1855 THACKERAY Newcomes ii,
> Tibbing out and receiving the penalty therefor. Ibid. lxxix, I used what they
> call to tib out and run down to a public-house.
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> The Carthusian: a miscellany in prose and verse.
> 1839 2 v. London: For S. Walker. Published by pupils of the Charterhouse,
> 1837-1839 Google Book full view v. 1 p. 19
> If some adventurous youth had 'tibbed out,' and come back with his head and
> tongue full of Miss Melon's attractions, Hawkhurst had been three nights
> running behind the scenes, and gone upon the stage at he banquet of Macbeth on
> [p.20] Mrs. Siddons benefit.
>
> Also, snippet-wise, NewMonthly Magazine, said to be 1840
> p245?
> scour the kettles--if you have no sand, you must "tib out" for some, and mind
> you don't get caught at it, or you'll be flogged
> p389?
> After dinner, clean up, put candles in my study, and get boiling water, &c.,
> ready for tea ; after that you'll only have to clean up every thing, '
> tib out'
> p389?
> ... Ninny dared not expostulate ; such a proceeding would not only have been a
> work of supererogation, but of positive danger. He was ordered to " tib
> out ...
> p390?
> was a work of danger, because if he were caught " tibbing out," a
> flogging was the certain result ; but the bringing of spirits into
> Rother- wick,
> ...
> p391?
> ... who showed their gratitude for the treat by showing up the boys in the
> morning, and having them flogged for " tibbing out down the lane. ...
>
> Stephen Goranson
> http://www.duke.edu/~goranson/Posidonius_Essenes.pdf
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