Middle English Dictionary Entry
trīpe n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | trīpe n.(1) Also trip. |
| Etymology | OF tripe entrails. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A part of the internal organs or viscera of an animal or a human being; coll. & pl. the entrails of an animal or a fish, the stomach of a ruminant, tripe; tripe used as fish bait, food; (b) as surname.
Associated quotations
a
- ?c1335 Heil seint Michel (Hrl 913)p.157 : Hail be ȝe hokesters dun bi þe lake, Wiþ candles and golokes and þe pottes blak, Tripis and kine fete and schepen heuedes.
- a1425 KAlex.(LinI 150)1572 : Teller of ieste is ofte myslike, Ribaud festez al so wiþ tripe.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)45b/b : Omaso: a tripe.
- a1425 Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Wel 225)291/3917 : Intestinum is propirly þe guttes & þe [p]ownce with all þare parties..Scrutum is a wam clowt þat we call a tryp.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)142a/a : In curyng of drie gibbosite ar entended moistyngz wiþ metez & drynkez nutrityuez..and broþþez of tripez.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)18 : Trype of Turbut or of Codelynge.
- c1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(2) (Hrl 4016)106 : Kut þe mawes in maner of Tripes of peny brede.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)588/7 : Hylle: trypys.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)130a : A Trype, vbi paynche [Monson: A panche].
- a1500 Bring us (BodPoet e.1)p.286 : Bryng vs in no mutton, for that is often lene, Nor bryng vs in no trypys, for thei be syldom clene.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)741/31 : Strutum, tripa: a tripe.
- a1500 Sum be mery (Lamb 306)p.268 : Some be browne, and some be whit, And some be tender as attripe [rime: ripe].
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)789/20 : Extum, esmum: a trype.
b
- (1185) in Reaney Dict.Br.Surnames354 : Herbert Tripe.
- (1301) Valuat.Dartford in Archaeol.Cant.9292 : William Tripes.
- (1302) in Reaney Dict.Br.Surnames354 : Robert Tripes.