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gib

UK/dʒɘb/ US/ɡɪb/ rare informal rare slang

noun

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Origin

Unknown (14th century). Perhaps abbreviated from Gilbert, the name of the cat in the medieval fables of Reynard the Fox, Romaunt of the Rose, and so on.

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