Tib's Eve
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English
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Etymology
[edit]After Tib (or Tibb), a fictional woman of loose morals in 17th-century English plays. Such a woman would not be a saint and so there was no Saint Tib and therefore no Tib's Eve.
Proper noun
[edit]Tib's Eve
- (UK, slang, archaic) A supposed future time that will never arrive.
- Marry you? I'll marry you on Tib's Eve!
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[edit]References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary