Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang Used as a term of familiar address, especially for a man or boy: See you around, bub.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A substitute for yeast, prepared by mixing meal or flour with a little yeast in a quantity of warm wort and water.
- n. Strong drink of any kind; liquor, especially malt liquor.
- To throw out in bubbles.
- n. A woman's breast.
- n. A boy: used in familiar address.
Wiktionary
- n. slang champagne; bubbly.
- v. obsolete To throw out in bubbles; to bubble.
- n. slang, historical An alcoholic malt liquor, especially beer.
- n. A woman's breast.
- n. Australia, slang A baby.
- n. A term of familiar address; bubba; bubby.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Cant Strong malt liquor.
- n. A young brother; a little boy; -- a familiar term of address of a small boy.
- v. obsolete To throw out in bubbles; to bubble.
Etymologies
- Shortened from bubble and bubbly. (Wiktionary)
- Probably alteration and shortening of brother. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The hug a bub is a very secure carrier, (we hope to stock it in the new year) or the moby is a cheaper version.”
“My bub is almost 10 mnths, has never slept thru the night and everything you just said about Jasper could have been about my Henry.”
“I don't understand what all the hub bub is about VM?”
“If you are thinking of getting an MFA in creative writing, planning on getting an MFA or just want to keep track of what the hub-bub is about, then The Creative Writing Handbook blog is for you.”
“In its latest dev diary, Raven Software discusses the settings for conflicts that shaped our little feral boy into the 'bub'-spewing man of today.”
“Let me clue you in bub: acting like some latte-sucking snob from the Upper West Side doesn’t mean you’re educated or intelligent.”
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“That can’t be what all the hub bub is about, that’s a terrible video any teen could make.”
“My beautiful bub is only 7 mnths and I’ve been thinking about the future on how I can instill concepts of empathy and compassion in him.”
“He did not take well my suggestion to call their bub "Ginger" which was just cause I like the name and not because it might be a redhead.”
“My bub is a sweater as well, it's pretty gross, but just one of those things.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bub’.
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3-Letter Scrabble Words Which Do Not ...
A list of 3-letter words which cannot be formed by adding a letter to a 2-letter word (see Ken Clark's word lists found at http://www.seattlescrab...
fiz, fix, fir, fig, fie, fib, eve, eke, egg, eek, ecu, ebb and 225 more...
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old timey talk
Words or Sayings from the 1920's or whatever that no one really uses anymore (at least in that context).
scram, bearcat, heavens to betsy, dick, double-cross, ducky, gams, goofy, hooch, jalopy, john, joe and 174 more...
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Palindromes
tenet, �?ΙΨΟ�? Α�?ΟΜΗΜΑΤ..., rotator, kayak, tattarrattat, detartrated, racecar, level, step on no pets, fall leaves after..., level, madam, level!, reviver and 108 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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Words that make me want to drink sing...
You know that feeling when you hear a word that you just want to roll it around in your mouth, experiment with it, find its edges and texture. Words that you want to clink around in a glass with so...
melt, agronomy, cartilage, vexatious, scintillating, carrion, caryopsis, crystallite, haulm, alegar, maltster, carpel and 35 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 1972 more... -
DYSLEXIC'S DELIGHT
Words a dyslexic can't get wrong: Palindromes
retartrater, redivider, level, noon, rotor, civic, peep, eke, deed, tenet, reviver, hannah and 145 more...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, B
bloviate, bejesus, brouhaha, behoove, bodacious, bamboozle, banshee, bub, bolus, blob, bubbly, bleb and 414 more...
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Old words that deserve revival
anywhen, batten, bedswerver, blashy, brightsome, bub, busk, canty, chuff, croodle, cumberworld, draggle and 42 more...
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Words I dislike
preggers, hubby, wifey, funky, slurpie, moist, olden, arvo, kthnxbye, fierce, whiff, organza and 14 more...
Tweets
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