Obs. A term of personal abuse.
1610. B. Jonson, Alch., IV. vii. Then you are an Otter, and a Shad, a Whit, A very Tim.
1673. S’ too him Bayes, 72–3. Next, he calls Bayes Incendiary, Idle Fellow: (You are a Sh[?]d, and a Whit, and a very Tim.)
