Noun

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1. (slangCategory:English slang#BUB, historicalCategory:English terms with historical senses#BUB) 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, 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.

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   • 1999 December 10, Black Isle Studios, quoting Morte, Planescape: Torment, Interplay Entertainment:

     "You can't remember your *name*? Heh. Well, NEXT time you spend a night in this berg, go easy on the bub."

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Noun

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1. (slangCategory:English slang#BUB) A woman's breast.
   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Penguin, published 2004, page 631:

     ‘Mr. Blanford, I esteem that there is nothing more sublime in nature than a glimpse of an English lady's bubs.’

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Noun

bub (plural bubs)Category:English lemmas#BUBCategory:English nouns#BUBCategory:English countable nouns#BUBCategory:English palindromes#BUBCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BUBCategory:Pages with entries#BUBCategory:Pages with 5 entries#BUB

1. A term of familiar address; bubba; bubby.
   • 1857, T. B. Aldrich, What Jedd Pallfry found in the Coffin: The Knickerbocker, volume 49, 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.

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   • 1857, Clara Augusta, Mrs. Peter Dame, George R. Graham, Graham′s Illustrated Magazine, Volume 50, page 398,

     Mrs. Peter filled her pocket with the cherries — “ Victoria and bub are so fond of them!” and we scrambled into the wagon.

2. A young brother; a little boy; a familiar term of address for a small boy.

Noun

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1. (AustraliaCategory:Australian English#BUB, slangCategory:English slang#BUB) A baby.

Noun

bub (plural bubs)Category:English lemmas#BUBCategory:English nouns#BUBCategory:English countable nouns#BUBCategory:English palindromes#BUBCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BUBCategory:Pages with entries#BUBCategory:Pages with 5 entries#BUB

1. Clipping of bubbleCategory:English clippings#BUB.
2. (slangCategory:English slang#BUB) Clipping of bubblyCategory:English clippings#BUB; champagne.
   • 2003, “In da Club”, in Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent:

     You find me in da club, bottle full of bub

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   • 2010, “Telephone”, performed by Lady Gaga:

     Out in the club and I'm sippin' that bub / And you're not gonna reach my telephone

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Verb

bub (third-person singular simple present bubs, present participle bubbing, simple past and past participle bubbed)Category:English lemmas#BUBCategory:English verbs#BUBCategory:English palindromes#BUBCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BUBCategory:Pages with entries#BUBCategory:Pages with 5 entries#BUB

1. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#BUB) To throw out in bubbles; to bubble.
   • 1563, Thomas Sackville, The Induction:

     We passed on so far forth till we saw
     Rude Acheron, a loathsome lake to tell,
     That boils and bubs up swelth as black as hell

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Declension

Synonyms

• jixol (dated)
• smakun (dated)
• smaxol (dated)
• xoil (dated)
• xol (dated)

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