lib-beg n.
(UK Und.) a bed, a bedroom.
Caveat for Common Cursetours in Viles & Furnivall (1907) 84: In what lipken has thou liped in this darkemans, whether in a libbeg or in the strummell? | ||
Groundworke of Conny-catching n.p.: [as cit. c.1566]. | ||
Belman of London (3rd) B4: Bene lightmans to thy quarrones: in what lipken hast thous lipped in this darkmans? whether in a libbege, or in the Strummell? | ||
Martin Mark-all 39: Lybbeg a bedde. | ||
Eng. Rogue I 50: Libedge, A Bed. | ||
Canting Academy (2nd edn). | ||
Academy of Armory Ch. iii item 68c: Canting Terms used by Beggars, Vagabonds, Cheaters, Cripples and Bedlams. [...] Libberdge, a Bed. | ||
Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Libbege, c. a bed. | ||
Lives of Most Noted Highway-men, etc. I 209: He taught his Pupil a deal of canting Words, telling him [...] Libege, a Bed. | ||
New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | ||
, , , | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | |
Canting Academy, or the Pedlar’s-French Dict. 115: Bedding Libbige. | ||
Scoundrel’s Dict. 15: A Bed – Libbedge. | ||
, , | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Libbege, a bed (cant). | |
New Dict. Cant (1795). | ||
Dict. Sl. and Cant. | ||
Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785]. | ||
Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1862) 298: We all went quietly to the labbig,* [...] Never the wink of sleep could they sleep that live-long night. (*Labbig — bed, from Leaba). | ||
Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open 114: Libbege, a bed. | ||
Vocabulum. | ||
Man-Eating Typewriter 17: [T]he Gideon Bibles in your libbages have been replaced by an altogether more powerful tome. |