name
Meaning 1
A surname from German.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
bub
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /bʌb/
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Australian: /bɐb/
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Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Ireland, Northern-England: /bʊb/
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rhymes with -ʌb
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CMU ARPABET: B AH1 B Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
An alcoholic malt liquor, especially beer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, slang, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
A woman's breast.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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noun
Meaning 4
A term of familiar address; bubba; bubby.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1857, Clara Augusta, Mrs. Peter Dame, George R. Graham, Graham′s Illustrated Magazine, Volume 50, page 398, Mrs. Peter filled her pocket with the cherries — “ Victoria and bub are so fond of them!” and we scrambled into the wagon.
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noun
Meaning 5
A young brother; a little boy; a familiar term of address for a small boy.
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noun
Meaning 6
A baby.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, slang
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noun
Meaning 7
Clipping of bubble.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
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noun
Meaning 8
Clipping of bubbly; champagne.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang
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verb
Meaning 9
To throw out in bubbles; to bubble.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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History
Etymology
Borrowed from German Bub.
Probably imitative of the sound of drinking.
Contraction of bubby.
Either a corruption of brother, a modification of bud, or a borrowing from Pennsylvania German Bub or Southern German Bub (as was spoken in various communities in America before the early 20th century), ultimately thought to be derived from Proto-Germanic *bō- (“close [male] relation”) and thus cognate to English boy and babe. Other probable cognates West Frisian bobbe, German Bube (“boy”), dialectal Swedish babbe (“little boy”), English babe, baby, and bully, Dutch boef (“mischievous lad, rascal”), Middle Low German bôve, and Icelandic bófi.
Perhaps from Northern dialectal English bab, from Middle English bab, a variant of babe (“babe, baby”).
Shortened from bubble and bubbly.