Also 5 Sc. trip, 5–6 trippe, 6 tryppe, 5–8 trype. [a. OF. tripe, trippe entrails of an animal (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), mod.F. tripe (whence Sp., Pg. tripa): ulterior source uncertain.]
1. The first or second stomach of a ruminant, esp. of the ox, prepared as food; formerly including also the entrails of swine and fish.
Plain tripe is the first stomach, paunch, or rumen, honeycomb tripe the second, or reticulum.
a. With a and pl. as an individual thing. Now rare. (Usually plural.)
a. 1300. Sat. People Kildare, xviii., in E. E. P. (1862), 155. Hail be ȝe hokesters dun bi þe lake wiþ … tripis and kine fete and schepen heuedes.
14[?]. Nom., in Wr.-Wülcker, 741/30, 31. Hoc strutum, Hec tripa, a tripe.
c. 1483. Caxton, Dialogues, 26/27. We shall breke our fast with trippes, Of the lyver, or the longhe.
1533. Elyot, Cast. Helthe (1541), 22. The inwarde of beastes, as trypes and chytterlynges.
1556. Withals, Dict. (1568), 48 b/2. Omasum, is one of the foure partes of a beastes mawe very fatte, calde a tripe.
1655. Moufet & Bennet, Health’s Impr. (1746), 201. The Taste of Tripes did seem so delicate to the Romans, that they often killed Oxen for the Tripes sake.
1767. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, IX. xxi. ‘I’m loaded with tripes,’ says the second.
1880. R. Owen, in Sanctorale Catholicum, March, 133. Then the priest, bearing tripes hot from the spit, approached as if to give to Pionius.
b. collect. sing. as the name of this substance.
13[?]. K. Alis., 1574 (Bodl. MS.). Ribaudes festeþ also wiþ tripe.
c. 1430. Two Cookery-bks., I. 18. Trype of Turbut or of Codelynge. Take þe Mawes of Turbut, Haddok, or Codelyng, & pyke hem clene [etc.].
1682. Dryden, Abs. & Achit., II. 473. To what would he on quail and pheasant swell That ev’n on tripe and carrion could rebel?
1771. Goldsm., Haunch of Venison, 82. At the bottom [of the table] was tripe, in a swinging tureen.
1840. Dickens, Barn. Rudge, xxxi. A steaming supper of boiled tripe and onions.
2. The intestines, bowels, guts, as members of the body; hence, the paunch or belly including them. arch. or low. Commonly in pl.
c. 1470. Henryson, Orpheus & Eurydice, 298. Ane grysly grype,… with his bill his baly thro[w] can bore, Baith maw, mydred, hart, lever, & tripe [v.rr. trype, trip], He ruggit owt.
a. 1529. Skelton, Ph. Sparowe, 307. Of Inde the gredy grypes Myght tere out all thy trypes!
c. 1645. Howell, Lett. (1650), II. lv. 71. The Turke when he hath his tripe full of pelaw, or of Muton and Rice, will go to natures cellar.
1774. J. Collier, Mus. Trav. (1785), 82. Dead cats, rotten puppies, the tripe of a dead horse.
1806–7. J. Beresford, Miseries Hum. Life (1826), xx. 250. Poor Margery’s tripes Are the martyrs of gripes.
b. Applied opprobriously or contemptuously to a person; also bag of tripe.
1595. Enq. Tripe-wife (1881), 150. Saist thou me so, thou Tripe, thou hated scorne?
1614. B. Jonson, Bart. Fair, IV. v. Alice. Thou Sow of Smithfield, thou. Ursula. Thou tripe of Turnebull.
1614, 1785. Tripe or Trillibub [see TRILLIBUB].
1822. Cobbett, Weekly Reg., 349. Any great, bloated, squeaking, bag of tripe.
1825. Jamieson, s.v. Trypal, A tall, meagre person is denominated ‘a long tripe o’ a fallow.’
3. transf. and fig. (in various applications).
1676. D’Urfey, Mad. Fickle, II. i. (1677), 11. You Dog,… Udsbores, I’le beat thee into a Tripe.
a. 1704. T. Brown, Contin. Quaker’s Serm., Wks. 1709, III. II. 4. Sowse us therefore, in the Powdering-Tub of thy Mercy, that we may be Tripes fit for the Heavenly Table.
1892. Spectator, 24 Dec., 930/2. This book … very vulgar, it is a dish of literary and artistic ‘tripe-and-onions.’
1895. Crockett, in Cornh. Mag., Oct., 341. He swore that he could make a song … that would be worth a shopful of such ‘tripe.’
4. attrib. and Comb., as tripe-broth, fritter, soup; tripe-gut; tripe-cart, -house, -shop; tripe-dealer, -dresser, -monger, -seller, -selling; tripe-like, -visaged adjs.; tripe-cheeks, a person with coarse blowzy cheeks; tripe-club, a society that meets to eat tripe; tripe-man, one who prepares and sells tripe as a business; tripe-stone Min., see quot. 1816; † tripe-wife sb., a female tripe-dresser; hence † tripe-wife v., trans. to make into, or like, a tripe-wife; tripe-woman = tripe-wife.
1747. trans. Astruc’s Fevers, 308. Physicians prescribe on this occasion anodyne lenient clysters of *tripe-broth.
1912. Dollar Mag., Dec., 182. Neither of us had seen a *tripe-cart before.
1599. Porter, Angry Wom. Abingt., H iij b. What needst thou to care, whipper-Ienny, *Tripe-cheekes.
1710. (title) The Swan *Tripe-Club: A Satyr on the High-Flyers.
1868. Daily News, 19 June. The tripes of bullocks are purchased wholesale by the *tripe-dressers.
1906. Breakfast Menu S. Y. ‘Argonaut,’ 9 July. *Tripe Fritters.
1659. Torriano, Bottaccio, the greatest *tripe-gut in an ox.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 941. Inflammation of the stomach and bowels accompanied by peculiar *tripe-like wrinklings of the mucous membrane.
1621. Bp. Mountagu, Diatribæ, 114. Cleon the Currier, and Agoracritus the *Tripe-man.
1851. Mayhew, Lond. Labour, II. 7/2. These portions [of the bullock] form what is styled the tripeman’s portion.
1621. Bp. Mountagu, Diatribæ, 540. He … vseth κοιλίας belly, or, Inwards of a Beast, as speaking vnto him, whom hee maketh a *Tripe-monger.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 54 b/2. A *Tripe-seller … had his membrane Dura mater cleft asunder.
1621. Bp. Mountagu, Diatribæ, 540. Hee … saith, For not Tithing thy Tripes, intending … that *Tripe-selling was his raising trade.
1829. Marryat, F. Mildmay, xx. My mother keeps a *tripe-shop.
a. 1735. Arbuthnot, Harmony in Uproar, Misc. Wks. 1751, II. 34. To invite you to eat a *Tripe-soup and Fricassey of Sheep’s Trotters.
1816. P. Cleaveland, Min., 122. Concreted sulphate of barytes…. These stalactites … from some resemblance to the intestines, have received the name of *tripe stone.
1597. Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., V. iv. 9. Thou damn’d *Tripe-visag’d Rascall.
1580. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Tripiére, a *trype wife.
1595. Enq. Tripe-wife (1881), 146. I haue heard him that trickt the Tripe-wife sweare, till her husband abused him.
a. 1652. Brome, City Wit, IV. ii. Was not thy mother a notorious Tripe-wife?
1647. Ward, Simp. Cobler, 26. When I consider how women … haue *tripe-wifed themselves with their cladments.
1598. Florio, Trippara, a *tripe-woman.
Hence † Triped a. Obs. rare, made into or dressed as tripe.
1597. Bk. Cookerie, B ij b. Triped mutton. Take a paunche of a Sheepe faire scowred [etc.].
