Rub vs Bub - What's the difference?
rub | bub |
An act of rubbing.
A difficulty or problem.
* III.i.71-75
* , Episode 16
In the game of crown green bowls: any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.
To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
* , chapter=7
, title= To rub something against (a second thing).
* Sir T. Elyot
To be rubbed against something.
To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
* Milton
(dated) To move or pass with difficulty.
To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up'' or ''over .
* South
To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
* Shakespeare
(slang, historical) An alcoholic malt liquor, especially beer.
* 1838 , Samuel Morewood, A Philosophical and Statistical History of the Inventions and Customs of Ancient and Modern Nations in the Manufacture and Use of Inebriating Liquors ,
A woman's breast.
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Penguin 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 631:
*:‘Mr. Blanford, I esteem that there is nothing more sublime in nature than a glimpse of an English lady's bubs .’
A term of familiar address; bubba; bubby.
* 1857 , T. B. Aldrich, What Jedd Pallfry found in the Coffin'', '' , Volume 49,
* 1857 , Clara Augusta, Mrs. Peter Dame'', George R. Graham, ''Graham?s Illustrated Magazine , Volume 50,
A young brother; a little boy; a familiar term of address for a small boy.
As a symbol rub
is russian rouble.As a noun bub is
boy, lad.rub
English
Noun
(en noun)- Give that lamp a good rub and see if any genies come out
- Therein lies the rub .
- To die, to sleep—/To sleep—perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub !/For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,/When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,/Must give us pause
- ...the propriety of the cabman's shelter, as it was called, hardly a stonesthrow away near Butt bridge where they might hit upon some drinkables in the shape of a milk and soda or a mineral. But how to get there was the rub .
Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.}}
- It shall be expedient, after that body is cleaned, to rub the body with a coarse linen cloth.
- meat rubbed with spices before barbecuing
- The smoothed plank, / New rubbed with balm.
- to rub up silver
- The whole business of our redemption is to rub over the defaced copy of the creation.
- 'Tis the duke's pleasure, / Whose disposition, all the world well knows, / Will not be rubbed nor stopped.
Derived terms
* rubber * rubbing * rub elbows * rub in * rub it in * rub out * rub off * rub shoulders * rub up * rub up onExternal links
* * *Anagrams
* ----bub
English
Etymology 1
Probably imitative of the sound of drinking.Noun
(-)page 662,
- 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.
Etymology 2
Contraction of (bubby).Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
Either a corruption of (brother), a modification of '' ("close [male] relation"), and is thus cognate to English ''boy'', ''babe'', ''baby'' and ''bully .Noun
(en noun)page 23,
- 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.
page 398,
- Mrs. Peter filled her pocket with the cherries — “ Victoria and bub are so fond of them!” and we scrambled into the wagon.
