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Rube vs Rune - What's the difference?

rube | rune |

As nouns the difference between rube and rune

is that rube is beet while rune is air-hole (of a chimney).

rube

English

Alternative forms

* Reub

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person of rural heritage; a yokel.
  • (pejorative) An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "rube")

    rune

    English

    (runes)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons.
  • A Finnish poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala.
  • Any verse or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; an incantation.
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, page 15:
    • the fiddle sang and sang as ceaselessly as the chanting cicada without, and the frogs intoning their sylvan runes by the waterside.
  • (obsolete) A roun.

    • Derived terms

    * runecraft * runelore * runester * runology, runologist

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