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Tib's Eve

Tib's Eve proper noun: a supposed future time that will never arrive.

Proper noun

Tib's Eve

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) A supposed future time that will never arrive.
    • Marry you? I'll marry you on Tib's Eve!

Forms of Tib's Eve

alternative formSt. Tibb's Eve
alternative formSt. Tib's Eve
alternative formTibb's Eve

Origin of Tib's Eve

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.

Questions about Tib's Eve

What does Tib's Eve mean?
Tib's Eve means a supposed future time that will never arrive.
What part of speech is Tib's Eve?
Tib's Eve is a proper noun.

Words near Tib's Eve in the dictionary

  1. tiazofurin
  2. tiazofurine
  3. tiazuril
  4. tib
  5. tib out
  6. Tib's Eve
  7. Tibag
  8. Tibagan
  9. Tibao
  10. Tibat
  11. Tibb

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