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Gub vs Gue - What's the difference?

gub | gue |

As nouns the difference between gub and gue

is that gub is mouth while gue is a kind of fiddle or violin played on the Shetland Islands.

As a verb gub

is to defeat.

gub

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Mouth.
  • * 1994 , "The acid House", Irvine Welsh, in Eurotrash :
    • "...fucked-up Yank who's too screwed up to lift a forkful of scran into her gub ?"
  • *
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    • Synonyms

    * (mouth) gob

    Verb

  • (slang) To defeat.
    • ''We just got gubbed 5-1.

    Anagrams

    * (l), (l) ----

    gue

    English

    Etymology 1

    Origin uncertain, perhaps representing Old Norse .

    Alternative forms

    * gju * gu

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Shetland) A kind of fiddle or violin played on the Shetland Islands.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A sharper; a rogue.
    • (Webster 1913) ----