[cf. dial. (E.Angl.) jibby, a girl dressed in showy finery.] (See quot. 1825.)
[c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 192/2. Gybbe, horse, mandicus.]
1601. Sir W. Cornwallis, Ess., II. xxxvi. (1631), 110. Knowledge disdaines the rattles and gibby horses of the world.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Jibby-horse, a showman’s horse decorated with particolored trappings, plumes, &c. It is sometimes transferred to a human subject.
