Noun: bub
Sample Sentences
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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. [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:]
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"You can't remember your *name*? Heh. Well, NEXT time you spend a night in this berg, go easy on the bub." [1999 October 12, Black Isle Studios, quoting Morte, Planescape: Torment, Interplay Entertainment:]
Nouns inflected like bub
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Probably imitative of the sound of drinking.
Verbs referencing "bub"
Dutch Nouns
boef.