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gub
English
Noun
gub (plural gubs)
- (Scotland slang) Mouth.
- 1994, "The acid House", Irvine Welsh, in Eurotrash:
- "...fucked-up Yank who's too screwed up to lift a forkful of scran into her gub?"
- 1994, "The acid House", Irvine Welsh, in Eurotrash:
Synonyms
- (mouth): gob
Verb
gub (third-person singular simple present gubs, present participle gubbing, simple past and past participle gubbed)
- (slang) To defeat.
- We just got gubbed 5-1.
Anagrams
- Bug, bug
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?up/
Verb
gub
- second-person singular imperative of gubi?
Somali
Verb
gub
- to burn
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cub
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /k?b/
- Rhymes: -?b
Etymology 1
Origin unknown. Perhaps compare Old Norse or Icelandic kobbi (“seal”), Old Irish cuib (“whelp”).
Noun
cub (plural cubs)
- A young fox.
- (by extension) The young of certain other animals, including the bear, wolf, lion and tiger.
- (humorous or derogatory) A child, especially an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy.
- (slang) A young man who seeks relationships with older women, or "cougars".
- (obsolete) A stall for cattle.
- (obsolete) A cupboard.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Laud to this entry?)
- Synonym of cub reporter
- 1978, The Journalism Quarterly (volume 55, page 652)
- Swain has interviewed 67 reporters on 16 metropolitan dailies in 10 cities — from cubs to veterans — who talk candidly […]
- 2018, Randall S. Sumpter, Before Journalism Schools
- […] from competing publications and the editors of publications that might buy freelance material from cubs.
- 1978, The Journalism Quarterly (volume 55, page 652)
Derived terms
- cub reporter
Translations
Verb
cub (third-person singular simple present cubs, present participle cubbing, simple past and past participle cubbed)
- To give birth to cubs
- To hunt fox cubs
- (obsolete) To shut up or confine.
Etymology 2
Noun
cub (plural cubs)
- Acronym of cashed up bogan.
References
Anagrams
- BUC, UBC
Albanian
Etymology
From South Slavic; compare Serbo-Croatian ??ba ‘tuft, crest’, Polish czub ‘crest; tip’. Mann posits that the noun might be from Gothic ???????????????????? (þiufs), although this is unlikely.
Adjective
cub m (feminine cube)
- bobtailed, having a docked tail
- awnless (of grain)
Derived terms
Noun
cub m (indefinite plural cuba, definite singular cubi, definite plural cubat)
- mountain bandit, robber, brigand, highwayman
- (figuratively) crazy hero, crazy fool
Derived terms
References
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin cubus.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?kup/
Noun
cub m (plural cubs)
- cube (regular polyhedron having six square faces)
- (mathematics) cube (the third power of a number)
Related terms
- cúbic
Further reading
- “cub” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Romanian
Etymology
From French cube, Latin cubus.
Noun
cub n (plural cuburi)
- cube
Yola
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
cub
- gull
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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