dub
English
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From a Late Old English (11th century) word dubban (“to knight by striking with a sword”) perhaps borrowed from Old French aduber, adober "equip with arms; adorn" (also 11th century, Modern French adouber), from Frankish *dubban, from Proto-Germanic *dubjaną (“to fit”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“plug, peg, wedge”).
Cognate with Icelandic dubba (dubba til riddara). Compare also drub for an English reflex of the Germanic word.
Verb
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- (transitive) (now historical) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword.
- (transitive) To name, to entitle, to call. [from the later 16th c]
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- As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”
- 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
- Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
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- (transitive) To deem.
- (Can we date this quote by Alexander Pope and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth.
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- To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
- (Can we date this quote by Malory and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), Morte d'Arthure
- His diadem was dropped down / Dubbed with stones.
- (Can we date this quote by Malory and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), Morte d'Arthure
- (heading) To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.
- To dress with an adze.
- to dub a stick of timber smooth
- To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.
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- To dress a fishing fly.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- To dress with an adze.
- To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
Synonyms
- (to confer knighthood): knight
- (to name, to entitle, to call.): designate, name; see also Thesaurus:denominate
- (to deem): consider, think of; see also Thesaurus:deem
- (to clothe or invest): deck out, embellish; see also Thesaurus:decorate
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Etymology 2
1505-1515 This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Verb
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- To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
- (Can we date this quote by Beaumont and Fletcher and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Now the drum dubs.
- (Can we date this quote by Beaumont and Fletcher and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- To do something badly.
- In golf, to execute a shot poorly.
Noun
dub (plural dubs)
- (rare) A blow, thrust, or poke.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Hudibras to this entry?)
Etymology 3
1885-90; Imitative, see also flub, flubdub
Noun
dub (plural dubs)
- (now historical) (slang) An unskillful, awkward person. [from the later part of the 19th c]
- 1936, P. G. Wodehouse, There's Always Golf[1], London: The Strand Magazine:
- As I came over the hill, I saw Ernest Plinlimmon and his partner, in whom I recognized a prominent local dub, emerging from the rough on the right. Apparently, the latter had sliced from the tee, and Ernest had been helping him find his ball.
- 1969, Robert L. Vann, The Competitor (volumes 2-3, page 135)
- The miser, a-seeking lost gelt, / The doughboy, awaiting the battle, / May possibly know how I felt / While the long years dragged by as the dealer / As slow as the slowest of dubs, / Stuck out the last helping of tickets / 'Till I lifted—the Bullet of Clubs!
Etymology 4
From a shortening of the word double.
Verb
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- To add sound to film or change audio on film. [from the first half of the 20th c]
- To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
- To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
- To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.
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Noun
dub (countable and uncountable, plural dubs)
- (music, countable) A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
- (music, uncountable) A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (music, uncountable) A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.
- (slang, countable) A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.
- 2001, Nancy Macdonald, The Graffiti Subculture, page 84:
- […] we climbed up the scaffolding and did these gold little dubs and you couldn't see them.
- 2011, Justin Rollins, The Lost Boyz: A Dark Side of Graffiti, page 34:
- The year 1998 was alive with graffiti and trains pulling up with dubs on their sides.
- (countable) The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing.
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Etymology 5
From Celtic; compare Irish dobhar (“water”), Welsh dŵr (“water”).
Noun
dub (plural dubs)
- (UK, dialect) A pool or puddle.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Etymology 6
From shortening of double dime (“twenty”).
Noun
dub (plural dubs)
Etymology 7
From dup (“to open”), from do + up, from Middle English don up (“to open”).
Verb
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- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To open or close.
- 1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter LXXXIII, in Pelham: or The Adventures of a Gentleman[2], page 402:
- "Crash the cull—down with him—down with him before he dubs the jigger. Tip him the degan, Fib, fake him through and through; if he pikes we shall all be scragged."
Noun
dub (plural dubs)
- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A lock.
- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A key, especially a master key; a lockpick.
- 1789, George Parker, Life's Painter of Variegated Characters in Public and Private Life, page 162:
- […] going upon the dobbin, is a woman dressed like a servant maid, no hat nor cloak on, a bunch of young dubs by her side, which are a bunch of small keys […]
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Czech
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ (“oak tree, oak”)
Pronunciation
Noun
dub m inan
Declension
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Further reading
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Lower Sorbian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
dub m ?
Declension
Old Irish
Etymology
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From Proto-Celtic *dubus (“black”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“black, deep”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
dub
Inflection
u-stem | |||
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Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | dub | dub | dub |
Vocative | dub | ||
Accusative | dub | duib | |
Genitive | duib | dubae | duib |
Dative | dub | duib | dub |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
Nominative | dubai | dubai | |
Vocative | dubai | ||
Accusative | dubai | ||
Genitive | * | ||
Dative | dubaib | ||
Notes | *not attested in Old Irish; same as nominative singular masculine in Middle Irish |
Descendants
Noun
dub n (genitive dubo)
- black pigment, ink
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 15a10
- ó dub glosses atramento
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 13d1
- in maith a n-dubso amne
- is this ink good thus?
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 15a10
- gall
Inflection
Neuter u-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | dubN | — | — |
Vocative | dubN | — | — |
Accusative | dubN | — | — |
Genitive | duboH, dubaH | — | — |
Dative | dubL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
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dub | dub pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ |
ndub |
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Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dub”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰanw-.
Noun
dub m (Cyrillic spelling дуб)
- (Croatia, archaic) oak (wood)
- (Croatia, archaic) oak tree
- c. 1840, Dragutin Rakovac (translating Samuel Tomášik), Hej, Slaveni:
- Stijena puca, dub se lama, zemlja nek’ se trese!
- The rock cracks, the oak breaks, let the earth quake!
- c. 1840, Dragutin Rakovac (translating Samuel Tomášik), Hej, Slaveni:
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Slovak
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ
Pronunciation
Noun
dub m (genitive singular duba, nominative plural duby, genitive plural dubov, declension pattern of dub)
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Further reading
- “dub”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Spanish
Noun
dub m (plural dubs)
Volapük
Preposition
dub
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