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rub | wub |

As a symbol rub

is russian rouble.

As a noun wub is

love or wub can be an extended bass note, characteristic of dubstep music, which is manipulated rhythmically to create an oscillating sound.

As a verb wub is

to love or wub can be to produce this sound.

rub

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An act of rubbing.
    • Give that lamp a good rub and see if any genies come out
  • A difficulty or problem.
    • Therein lies the rub .
  • * III.i.71-75
    • 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
  • * , Episode 16
    • ...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 .
  • 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.

    • Verb

  • To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= 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.}}
  • To rub something against (a second thing).
  • * Sir T. Elyot
    • It shall be expedient, after that body is cleaned, to rub the body with a coarse linen cloth.
  • To be rubbed against something.
  • To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
    • meat rubbed with spices before barbecuing
  • * Milton
    • The smoothed plank, / New rubbed with balm.
  • (dated) To move or pass with difficulty.
  • To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up'' or ''over .
    • to rub up silver
  • * South
    • The whole business of our redemption is to rub over the defaced copy of the creation.
  • To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
  • * Shakespeare
    • '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 on

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    wub

    English

    Etymology 1

    From a childish mispronunciation of love.

    Noun

    (-)
  • Love.
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    • Verb

  • To love.
  • * 2003 , Alice Kennedy, Extraordinary Circumstances , 1st Books Library (2003), ISBN 1403355525, page 219:
    • “I wub you, Mommie,” he'd say over and over.
  • * 2005 , Willard Scott, If I Knew It Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First , Hyperion Books (2005), ISBN 0786888733, page 104:
    • One of the first real sentences uttered by our granddaughter sitting on my knee was, "I wub you, Papa," which I interpreted to mean, "I love you, Papa."
  • * 2006 , Daniel Gilbert, " Does Fatherhood Make You Happy?", Time , 11 June 2006:
    • Just as a glorious game-winning homer can erase our memory of 812 dull innings, the sublime moment when our 3-year-old looks up from the mess she is making with her mashed potatoes and says, "I wub you, Daddy," can erase eight hours of no, not yet, not now and stop asking.
    Related terms
    * wuv

    Etymology 2

    Onomatopoeic.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An extended bass note, characteristic of dubstep music, which is manipulated rhythmically to create an oscillating sound.
  • * 2012 , Jimbo Ivy, " Lucky's Live!", The Hype Weekly , Issue 23, 2 February 2012, page 5:
    • For the uninitiated, a wub (or wobble bass, its technical name) is that distinctive long bass note that is “torn” or “bent” rhythmically or…wubbed, and is one of the distinctive features of dubstep music.
  • * 2012 , Allegra Dimperio, " Grimy chills, champagne thrills on Deadmeat Tour", The Badger Herald (University of Wisconsin), Volume 43, Issue 93, 24 February 2012, page 5:
    • Though the audience wasn’t instantly sold on Datsik’s opening wubs , the cheer that erupted when the DJ segued into Skrillex’s remix of “Levels” further shook the already-vibrating venue.
  • * 2013 , Graeme Virtue, " Imagine Dragons – review", The Guardian , 9 April 2013:
    • It's an impressive, almost overwhelming synthesis of commercial influences, including, in their monster hit Radioactive, some rather mannered dubstep wubs .
    Synonyms
    * wobble bass

    Verb

  • To produce this sound.
  • * 2012 , Jimbo Ivy, " Lucky's Live!", The Hype Weekly , Issue 23, 2 February 2012, page 5:
    • For the uninitiated, a wub (or wobble bass, its technical name) is that distinctive long bass note that is “torn” or “bent” rhythmically or…wubbed , and is one of the distinctive features of dubstep music.
  • * 2012 , Philip Sherburne, " Dubstep Selling Candy, Helping to Stop Human Trafficking", Spin , 8 May 2012:
    • In a repeat of the "electronica" boom of the 1990s, when the music of artists like Moby, Dirty Vegas, and the Crystal Method became inescapable on prime-time TV, dubstep is steadily wubbing its way into the commercial landscape.
  • * 2013 , Erik van Rheenen, " Overshadowed: A$AP Rocky's featured artists outshine him on own his own album", The Daily Orange (Syracuse University), 15 January 2013, page 13:
    • but enlisting Skrillex to wub all over “Wild For The Night” is a head-scratching move.
    English onomatopoeias