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Glue vs Glub - What's the difference?

glue | glub |

As nouns the difference between glue and glub

is that glue is a hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance while glub is the sound of underwater bubbles, or of water bubbling (often used repetitively).

As a verb glue

is to join or attach something using glue.

glue

English

(wikipedia glue)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.
  • (obsolete) Birdlime.

    • Derived terms

    * bee glue * fish glue * glue code * glue plant * glue stick * glueball * gluey * marine glue

    Verb

  • To join or attach something using glue.
    • I need to glue the chair-leg back into place.
  • * '>citation
  • To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively.
    • His eyes were glued to the screen.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • So as I lay on the ground with my ear glued close against the wall, who should march round the church but John Trenchard, Esquire, not treading delicately like King Agag, or spying, but just come on a voyage of discovery for himself.

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    glub

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound of underwater bubbles, or of water bubbling (often used repetitively).
  • * 2004 David L Roper - Son Of A Sharecropper: Growing Up in Oklahoma
    • The boat, which was filled with water, instantly—glub, glub —sank.
    English onomatopoeias