srub

See also: śrub and сруб

English

Etymology

From shrub.

Pronunciation

• enPR: srŭb, IPA^(key): /sɹʌb/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌb

Noun

srub (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of shrub (“a drink of fruit juice, spirits, etc.”)
   • 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

     […] Will you take something? A glass of srub and water, now? I smoke on srub and water, myself,' said Mr. Omer, taking up his glass, 'because it's considered softening to the passages, by which this troublesome breath of mine gets into action.

Anagrams

• Brus, brus, burs, rubs, urbs

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsrup]
• Rhymes: -up

Noun

srub m inan

1. a cabin (building made from wooden logs)

Declension

Declension of srub (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	srub	sruby
genitive	srubu	srubů
dative	srubu	srubům
accusative	srub	sruby
vocative	srube	sruby
locative	srubu	srubech
instrumental	srubem	sruby

Further reading

• srub in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• srub in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989