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bub

nomnomnomnomnomverbeattesté dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//bʌb//
  • Australie//bɐb//
  • Irlande//bʊb//

A woman's breast.

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    historiqueAn 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."

Étymologie

Probably imitative of the sound of drinking.

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    argotA woman's breast.

    ‘Mr. Blanford, I esteem that there is nothing more sublime in nature than a glimpse of an English lady's bubs.’

Étymologie

Contraction of bubby.

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    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.

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    A young brother; a little boy; a familiar term of address for a small boy.

Étymologie

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.

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    argotA baby.

Étymologie

Perhaps from Northern dialectal English bab, from Middle English bab, a variant of babe (“babe, baby”).

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    Variante de bubbleClipping of bubble.

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    Variante de bubblyargotClipping 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

Étymologie

Shortened from bubble and bubbly.

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    obsolèteTo 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

Formes

pluriel
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passé
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participe passé
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participe présent
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3ᵉ personne du singulier
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Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

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