bub
nounnounnounnounnounverbattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//bʌb//
- Australia//bɐb//
- Ireland//bʊb//
A woman's breast.
noun
- 1
historicalAn alcoholic malt liquor, especially beer.
Bub is made from ground barley and strong worts, and sometimes from strong small worts from the coolers, properly blended and boiled with some hops, in the proportion of one pound to a barrel of worts.
"You can't remember your *name*? Heh. Well, NEXT time you spend a night in this berg, go easy on the bub."
Etymology
Probably imitative of the sound of drinking.
noun
- 1
slangA woman's breast.
‘Mr. Blanford, I esteem that there is nothing more sublime in nature than a glimpse of an English lady's bubs.’
Etymology
Contraction of bubby.
noun
- 1
A term of familiar address; bubba; bubby.
So he changed his brusque manner, and inquired, in a tone which was intended to be extremely conciliatory : ‘ What′s your name, bub ? ’ ‘ The last one, Sir ? ’ asked bub, looking up.
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.
- 2
A young brother; a little boy; a familiar term of address for a small boy.
Etymology
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.
noun
- 1
slangA baby.
Etymology
Perhaps from Northern dialectal English bab, from Middle English bab, a variant of babe (“babe, baby”).
noun
- 1
Variant of bubbleClipping of bubble.
- 2
Variant of bubblyslangClipping of bubbly; champagne.
You find me in da club, bottle full of bub
Out in the club and I'm sippin' that bub / And you're not gonna reach my telephone
Etymology
Shortened from bubble and bubbly.
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo throw out in bubbles; to bubble.
We passed on so far forth till we saw Rude Acheron, a loathsome lake to tell, That boils and bubs up swelth as black as hell
Forms
- plural
- bubs
- past tense
- bubbed
- past participle
- bubbed
- present participle
- bubbing
- third person singular
- bubs