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(pl. noun) - (1) Ablutions; tubbing.
--John Farmer's Slang and Its Analogues, 1890-1904
(2) To do one's tumbies, to have a bath. Possibly a corruption of tubbing. Oxford.
--Morris Marples' University Slang, 1950
January 14, 2018