different between tub vs tut

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

Etymology 1

Imitative.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?t/, [?]
• Rhymes: -?t

Interjection

tut

1. Tut tut; an expression of disapproval.
2. Hush; be silent.

Synonyms

• (expression of disapproval): See Thesaurus:tut tut

Verb

tut (third-person singular simple present tuts, present participle tutting, simple past and past participle tutted)

1. To make a tut tut sound of disapproval.

Etymology 2

Shortening of tutorial.

Alternative forms

• tute

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t(j)u?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Noun

tut (plural tuts)

1. (Internet slang) A tutorial.
   • 2002, "Little Penny", Looking for sites, tuts, videos to learn html (newbie) (on newsgroup alt.html)

Etymology 3

Compare Swedish tut (“a point, pipe, tube”), Danish tut (“a cornet”).

Pronunciation

Noun

tut (plural tuts)

1. An imperial ensign consisting of a golden globe with a cross on it.
2. (Britain, obsolete, dialect) A hassock.

Etymology 4

Noun

tut (plural tuts)

1. (obsolete) A piece of work.

Etymology 5

Noun

tut (uncountable)

1. (Southern England) Rubbish.
   • 1977, Ian Drury & the Blockheads, Clever Trevor

     Such stupidness is mad 'cause nothing underfoot comes to nothing less to add to a load of old tut.

   • 2012, M.T. Maguire, The Wrong Stuff: K'Barthan Series: Part 2

     Cracking excuse: credible, watertight and yet patently a load of old tut.

   • 2017, Marilyn Messik, Witch Dust

     “Well there's a load of old tut in the cupboard next to Felicia's room,” she said grudgingly.

Verb

tut (third-person singular simple present tuts, present participle tutting, simple past and past participle tutted)

1. (obsolete) To work by the piece; to carry out tut-work.

Anagrams

• Utt

Amanab

Noun

tut

1. milk

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• tutu, tot, totu

Etymology

From Latin t?tus. Compare Romanian tot.

Adjective

tut m (feminine tutã or tute, masculine plural tuts, feminine plural tuti/tute)

1. all

Derived terms

• tutauna, totãnã, tutdiunã

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Persian ???? (tut). Ultimate origin uncertain.

Noun

tut (definite accusative tutu, plural tutlar)

1. mulberry

Declension

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?ud?]

Etymology 1

From Middle High German t?te (“thing shaped like a horn”), compare also German Tüte (“bag”) and (an older loan from Low German) Danish tud (“spout”). Possibly from Proto-Germanic *þeut? (“pipe”) with an irregular (onomatopoeic?) treatment of the initial consonant.

Noun

tut c (singular definite tutten, plural indefinite tutter)

1. stall (a cover to a finger)
2. roll (a roll of coins)

Inflection

References

• “tut,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

Derived from the verb tutte.

Noun

tut n (singular definite tuttet, plural indefinite tut)

1. toot

Declension

References

• “tut,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

tut f (plural tutten, diminutive tutje n)

1. a stiff wooden woman
2. (chiefly Belgium) a pacifier

   Synonym: fopspeen

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty/
• Rhymes: -y
• Homophones: tu, tue, tues, tuent, tus, tût

Verb

tut

1. third-person singular past historic of taire

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Verb

tut

1. third-person singular present of tun

2. inflection of tun:
   1. second-person plural present
   2. plural imperative

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (t?t).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?t/

Noun

tut m (collective, singulative tuta, plural tuti)

1. blackberry
2. mulberry

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Noun

tut m (definite singular tuten, indefinite plural tuter, definite plural tutene)

1. spout (on a teapot etc.)

Etymology 2

From the verb tute

Noun

tut n (definite singular tutet, indefinite plural tut, definite plural tuta or tutene)

1. toot

Etymology 3

Verb

tut

1. imperative of tute

References

• “tut” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

tut m (definite singular tuten, indefinite plural tutar, definite plural tutane)

1. spout (on a teapot, etc.)

Etymology 2

From the verb tute

Noun

tut n (definite singular tutet, indefinite plural tut, definite plural tuta)

1. toot

References

• “tut” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Adjective

tut m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tute)

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of tot

Declension

Adverb

tut

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of tot

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• tüt

Etymology

From Latin t?tus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tyt/

Adjective

tut

1. all

Pronoun

tut

1. everything, all
2. anything

Noun

tut m

1. whole

Romansch

Etymology 1

From Latin t?tus.

Adverb

tut

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) all

Alternative forms

• tot (Surmiran)
• tuot (Puter, Vallader)

Etymology 2

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

Noun

tut m (plural tuts)

1. (Sursilvan) nap

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) siesta, durmida
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) cupid
• (Sutsilvan) sien
• (Surmiran) cupidada, durmeidetta, cuc
• (Puter, Vallader) sönin
• (Vallader) sönet

Swedish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

tut n

1. The sound of a car horn or a train's whistle; honk.

Declension

Turkish

Verb

tut

1. second-person singular imperative of tutmak

Antonyms

• tutma

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Noun

t?t m

1. death

Volapük

Noun

tut (nominative plural tuts)

1. tooth

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• tuit

Zazaki

Alternative forms

• tute (female)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tut/
• Hyphenation: tut

Noun

tut m

1. child