Lexicographical Neighbors of Sillibub
Literary usage of Sillibub
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contested Etymologies in the Dictionary of the Rev. W. W. Skeat by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1882)
"Laict aigre, .whay; also a sillibub or merry bo wke."—Cot. ... not by corruption
of sillibub, but by confusion with the synonymous ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Spelt sillibub in ... or sillibub, Laict aigre ;' Sherwood, index to Cotgrave.
Cotgrave gives : ' Laict aigre, whay ; also, a sillibub or ..."
3. Memoirs of the Verney Family by Margaret Maria Williams-Hay Verney (1894)
"... our coachman and his horses, brought us last night safe to Dover; . . .
my mother would have forced you not only hither, but to have tasted a sillibub, ..."
4. Memoirs of the Verney Family by Margaret Maria Williams-Hay Verney (1894)
"... our coachman and his horses, brought us last night safe to Dover; . . .
my mother would have forced you not only hither, but to have tasted a sillibub, ..."
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