different between tub vs hod

English

Etymology

From Middle English tubbe, tobbe, from Middle Dutch tubbe or Middle Low German tubbe, tobbe, further etymology unknown. Considered to be unrelated to tube.

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?b, IPA^(key): /t?b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Noun

tub (plural tubs)

1. A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.

2. The contents or capacity of such a vessel.

3. A bathtub.
   • 1920, Theodore Sharpe, My Place in the Shade: And Various Verse (page 27)

     Teach me to love my morning tub, / In waters cold to splash and rub; / O, grant my Turkish towel may flood / Its virtues through my soul and blood.

4. (nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.
5. (humorous or derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.

   • All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth.

6. A small cask.

7. Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
8. (mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
9. (obsolete) A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.
10. (slang) A corpulent or obese person.
    • 2003, Trey Ellis, Platitudes: & the New Black Aesthetic (page 139)

      Donald tells him to be more realistic. Take those two girls over there, for example. One's a zitface and the other's a tub, so they'd be perfect for them.

Derived terms

• bathtub
• hot tub
• powdering tub
• tub-fast
• tubby

Translations

Verb

tub (third-person singular simple present tubs, present participle tubbing, simple past and past participle tubbed)

1. (transitive) To plant, set, or store in a tub.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To bathe in a tub.
   • February 1, 1873, Meredith Townsend and Richard Holt Hutton (editors), "Change of Air and Scene", in The Spectator

     Don't we all "tub" in England?

References

Further reading

• tub on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• BTU, TBU, but, but-

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?tup/

Noun

tub m (plural tubs)

1. tube

Related terms

• tubular

Further reading

• “tub” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Juba Arabic

Noun

tub

1. brick

Kavalan

Noun

tub

1. lid

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tube, Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tub]

Noun

tub n (plural tuburi)

1. tube

Declension

White Hmong

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?/

Noun

tub

1. son

References

• Ernest E. Heimbach, White Hmong - English Dictionary (1979, SEAP Publications)

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?h?d/
• Rhymes: -??d
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

Etymology uncertain, but apparently related to Scots hod (“to jog along on horseback”), Scots houd, howd (“to sway, rock from side to side, wriggle, bob up and down”). Probably all from Old English h?denian (“to shake, sway, rock back and forth”), from Proto-Germanic *hud- (“to shake”). Related to Scots hodder (“to plod, stump or jog along”), Low German h?dern (“to shake, shudder”). Compare also hoddle.

Verb

hod (third-person singular simple present hods, present participle hodding, simple past and past participle hodded)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To bob up and down on horseback; jog.

Etymology 2

Alteration of Middle English hott (“pannier”), from Old French hotte, from Frankish *hotta (“basket”).

Noun

hod (plural hods)

1. A three-sided box for carrying bricks or other construction materials, often mortar. It bears a long handle and is carried over the shoulder.
2. A receptacle for carrying coal, particularly one designed to facilitate loading coal or coke through the door of a firebox.
3. A pewterer's blowpipe.
4. (horse racing) A bookmaker's bag.
   • 2007, Tommy Steele, Bermondsey Boy: Memories of a Forgotten World

     'Clerking' is perhaps the most difficult and most admired job on a racecourse. The next time you see a bookmaker at his hod, waving his ticket-filled hands, shouting the odds, look to his left, just back a bit – out of the limelight.

Related terms

• hod carrier

Translations

Anagrams

• OHD, d'oh, doh

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ot/

Noun

hod m

1. throw

Related terms

• hodit

Further reading

• hod in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• hod in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English h?d, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz.

Alternative forms

• hode, had, hade, hede

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??d/
• (Early ME, Northern ME) IPA^(key): /h??d/
• (Northern ME) IPA^(key): /h??d/

Noun

hod (plural hodes)

1. One's degree, level, office, or estate; one's position in relation to others
2. A religious or clerical office, position, or calling.
3. State, condition, one's position in relation to one's previous position.
4. (Christianity) The Trinity; the three hypostases composing the Godhead.

Derived terms

• hoden

Descendants

• English: hade, hede (obsolete)
• Scots: hade (obsolete)

References

• “h??d, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-12.

Etymology 2

Noun

hod

1. Alternative form of hood

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *xod?, from Proto-Indo-European *sod-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xô?d/

Noun

h?d m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. walk, gait
2. pace

Declension

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???t/

Noun

hod m (genitive singular hodu, nominative plural hody, genitive plural hodov, declension pattern of dub)

1. throw

Declension

Further reading

• hod in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk