drub

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɹʌb/
• Rhymes: -ʌb

Etymology 1

From Middle English *drob, drof, from Old English *drōb, drōf (“turbid; dreggy; dirty”), from Proto-Germanic *drōbuz (“turbid”).

Noun

drub (usually uncountable, plural drubs)

1. (dialectal, Northern England) carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.

Derived terms

• drubly

Etymology 2

1625, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Arabic ضَرَبَ (ḍaraba, “to beat, to hit”), or perhaps originally from a dialectal word (Kent) drab, variant of drop, dryp, drib (“to beat”), from Middle English drepen (preterit drop, drap, drape “to strike, kill”) from Old English drepan (“to strike”), from Proto-Germanic *drepaną (“to beat, bump, strike, slay”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreb- (“to strike, crush, kill”). Akin to Old Frisian drop (“a blow, beat”), Old High German treffan (“to hit”), Old Norse drepa (“to strike, slay, kill”). Compare also dub. More at drape.

Verb

drub (third-person singular simple present drubs, present participle drubbing, simple past and past participle drubbed) (transitive)

1. To beat (someone or something) with a stick.
2. To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush.
3. To forcefully teach something.
4. To criticize harshly; to excoriate.

Derived terms

• drubbing

Translations

to beat with a stick

• Danish: banke (da), prygle, tæske (da)
• French: battre (fr)
• German: prügeln (de)
• Norman: quétilyi
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pryle (no)

• Russian: бить палкой (bítʼ pálkoj), колоти́ть (ru) (kolotítʹ)
• Swedish: prygla (sv)

Anagrams

• BrdU, Burd, brud, burd