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cub

See also: Cub, CUB, cúb, and чуб

English edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (UK) IPA(key): /kʌb/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌb

Etymology 1 edit

From earlier cubbe. Origin unknown. According to Pokorny, from Proto-Germanic *kubb-, from Proto-Indo-European *gup- (“round object, knoll”), from *gew- (“to bend, curve, arch, vault”).[1]

Compare Icelandic and Old Norse kobbi (“seal”), Old Irish cuib (“whelp”).[2] Compare also English cob.

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

 
a cub.

cub (plural cubs)

  1. A young fox.
  2. (by extension) The young of certain other animals, including the bear, wolf, lion and tiger.
  3. (humorous or derogatory) A child, especially an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy.
  4. (slang) A young man who seeks relationships with older women, or "cougars".
  5. (obsolete) A stall for cattle.
  6. 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.
  7. (furry fandom) A furry character who is a child.
  8. (Northern Ireland, Ulster) A boy or young man.
    • 1993, Ray Givans, No Surrender, Castlecaulfield, Lapwing Publications, →ISBN, page 14:
      A man who reared ten cubs and three cutties.
    • 2016 September 12, Henry Glassie, The Stars of Ballymenone, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 229:
      The point of the example is educational, moral, and the moral qualities of the stories attracted Peter Flanagan who remembered them from childhood and told them to the cutties and cubs when he was, for them, a funny old man.
    Coordinate term: cutty
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Verb edit

cub (third-person singular simple present cubs, present participle cubbing, simple past and past participle cubbed)

  1. To give birth to cubs.
  2. To hunt fox cubs.
    • 1943, Stuart Palmer, The Puzzle of the Silver Persian:
      He knew that, only a few hours from London, the Hunt was cubbing over his ancestral and much-mortgaged acres, while his own horse ate its head off in a stable.
  3. (obsolete) To shut up or confine.

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

cub (plural cubs)

  1. Acronym of cashed up bogan.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “393-398”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 393-398
  2. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “cub”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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Albanian edit

Etymology edit

From South Slavic; compare Serbo-Croatian ćȕba ‘tuft, crest’, Polish czub ‘crest; tip’.[1]

However, Mann posits that the noun might be from Gothic 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐍆𐍃 (þiufs).[2]

Adjective edit

cub (feminine cube)

  1. bobtailed, having a docked tail
  2. awnless (of grain)

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Noun edit

cub m (plural cuba, definite cubi, definite plural cubat)

  1. mountain bandit, robber, brigand, highwayman
  2. (figurative) crazy hero, crazy fool

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “cub”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 48
  2. ^ S. E. Mann, “The Indo-European Vowels in Albanian”, Language 26 (1950): 384.

Catalan edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin cubus.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cub m (plural cubs)

  1. cube (regular polyhedron having six square faces)
  2. (mathematics) cube (the third power of a number)

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Further reading edit

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French cube, from Latin cubus.

Noun edit

cub n (plural cuburi)

  1. cube

Yola edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Irish caobach.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cub

  1. A small gull.

References edit

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 32
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