different between pub vs gub

English

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p?b/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /p?b/
• Rhymes: -?b, -?b

Etymology 1

Clipping of public house

Noun

pub (plural pubs)

1. A public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed, also providing food and sometimes entertainment such as live music or television.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pub

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pub (third-person singular simple present pubs, present participle pubbing, simple past and past participle pubbed)

1. (informal, intransitive) To go to one or more public houses.

See also

• inn
• off-licence
• tavern

Etymology 2

Clipping of public server

Noun

pub (plural pubs)

1. (video games, slang) A public server.
   • 2002, "Sean C. Cunningham", if you play on random public servers, you're an ^[sic] tool and have no right to complain about cheaters. (on newsgroup alt.games.half-life.counterstrike)

     Well there's private servers and then there's pubs that do their best to make sure everyone plays fair. The second option will be a lot easier to find.

Etymology 3

Clipping of publication.

Noun

pub (plural pubs)

1. Clipping of publication.

   registered pubs

Etymology 4

Clipping of publish.

Verb

pub (third-person singular simple present pubs, present participle pubbing, simple past and past participle pubbed)

1. (informal, transitive) to publish

Anagrams

• UPB

Finnish

Alternative forms

• pubi

Noun

pub

1. pub

Declension

French

Etymology 1

Clipping of publicité.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pyb/

Noun

pub f (plural pubs)

1. Television ad or advert.

Derived terms

• pause pub
• pubard

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English pub.

Pronunciation

• (France) IPA^(key): /pœb/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /p?b/

Noun

pub m (plural pubs)

1. pub

Derived terms

• resto pub

Further reading

• “pub” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English pub.

Noun

pub m (invariable)

1. pub

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From British English pub (“public house”)

Noun

pub m (definite singular puben, indefinite plural puber, definite plural pubene)

1. a pub

Related terms

• bar

References

• “pub” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From British English pub (“public house”)

Noun

pub m (definite singular puben, indefinite plural pubar, definite plural pubane)

1. a pub

Related terms

• bar

References

• “pub” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From English pub.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pap/

Noun

pub m inan

1. pub (public house)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) pubowy

Further reading

• pub in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• pub in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Austrian German Bub, Bube.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pû?b/ or IPA^(key): /pûb/

Noun

p?b or p?b m (Cyrillic spelling ???? or ????) (regional)

1. jack, knave in card games

Declension

Coordinate terms

References

• “pub” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
• “pub”, in ?????? ???????????????? ????????? ?????? (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 5, ????? ?????????? ?????? edition, ???? ???, ??????: ?????? ??????, ?????? ????????, 1973, published 1990, page 282

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English pub.

Noun

pub m (plural pubs)

1. pub

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English pub.

Noun

pub c

1. pub

Declension

Anagrams

• BUP, PBU

English

Noun

gub (plural gubs)

1. (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?"

Synonyms

• (mouth): gob

Verb

gub (third-person singular simple present gubs, present participle gubbing, simple past and past participle gubbed)

1. (slang) To defeat.

   We just got gubbed 5-1.

Anagrams

• Bug, bug

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?up/

Verb

gub

1. second-person singular imperative of gubi?

Somali

Verb

gub

1. to burn