Tubby vs Dubby - What's the difference?
tubby | dubby |
stout, rotund
Resembling a tub; sounding dull and without resonance or freedom of sound.
(pejorative, slang, often used teasingly) An overweight person.
(music) In the style of ; having been heavily remixed, particularly with reduced vocals or emphasised bass.
* {{quote-book, 2005, title=Rip it up and start again: postpunk 1978-1984, author=Simon Reynolds
, passage=What's striking about the record is how PiL assimilated both the dread feel of roots reggae and the dub aesthetic of subtraction (stripping out instruments, using empty space), without ever resorting to obviously dubby production effects like reverb and echo.}}
* {{quote-book, 2009, title=Dance of Days: Updated Edition: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital, author=Mark Andersen, Mark Jenkins
, passage=As this "song with no words" rose from its dubby beginning to a roaring Crescendo, MacKayre sang,
(dated, dialectal) stubby, stumpy; Lacking shapeliness or finesse.
* {{quote-book, 1863, title=All the year round, author=
, passage=Why is its bring an object to be perpetually plucked and pinched with dubby fingers?}}
* {{quote-book, 1868, title=So as by Fire, author=Camilla Willian
, passage=I look just like all short, dubby, light-complexioned girls.}}
(dated, dialectal) wet and muddy; dirty
* {{quote-book, 1832, title=Stanley Buxton: or, The schoolfellows, author=John Galt
, passage="Set the umbrella ready, and my pattens at the door, for I fear the roads are dubby."}}
* {{quote-book, 1994, Blackden By Duncan McLean
, passage=I was going to stand on it, but my boots are a bit dubby}}
As adjectives the difference between tubby and dubby
is that tubby is stout, rotund while dubby is in the style of dub music; having been heavily remixed, particularly with reduced vocals or emphasised bass.As a noun tubby
is an overweight person.tubby
English
Adjective
(er)- a tubby violin
Derived terms
* tubbinessNoun
(tubbies)Derived terms
* Teletubbydubby
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Adjective
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