dub

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See also: DUB and Dub

English

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʌb/
  • Audio (AU):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌb

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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  1. (transitive) (now historical) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword.
  2. (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.
  3. (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.
  4. 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.
  5. (heading) To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.
    1. To dress with an adze.
      to dub a stick of timber smooth
    2. To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
      (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
    3. To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.
      (Can we find and add a quotation of Tomlinson to this entry?)
    4. To dress a fishing fly.
      (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
  6. To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.

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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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  1. 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.
  2. To do something badly.
  3. In golf, to execute a shot poorly.

Noun

dub (plural dubs)

  1. (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)

  1. (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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  1. To add sound to film or change audio on film. [from the first half of the 20th c]
  2. To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
  3. To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
  4. To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.
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Translations

Noun

dub (countable and uncountable, plural dubs)

  1. (music, countable) A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
  2. (music, uncountable) A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
  3. (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.
  4. (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.
  5. (countable) The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing.
Derived terms
Translations
dubbing — see dubbing

Etymology 5

From Celtic; compare Irish dobhar (“water”), Welsh dŵr (“water”).

Noun

dub (plural dubs)

  1. (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)

  1. (slang) A twenty dollar sack of marijuana.
  2. (slang) A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.

Etymology 7

From dup (“to open”), from do + up, from Middle English don up (“to open”).

Verb

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  1. (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)

  1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A lock.
  2. (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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Anagrams

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ (“oak tree, oak”)

Pronunciation

Noun

dub m inan

  1. oak, oak tree

Declension

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Derived terms

Further reading

Anagrams

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

dub m ?

  1. oak

Declension

Declension of dub
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative dub duba duby
Genitive duba dubowu dubow
Dative duboju duboma dubam
Accusative dub duba duby
Instrumental dubom duboma dubami
Locative dubje duboma dubach

Old Irish

Etymology

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(deprecated template usage) From Proto-Celtic *dubus (“black”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“black, deep”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

dub

  1. black
  2. morally dark, dire, gloomy, melancholy

Inflection

u-stem
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

  • Irish: dubh
  • Scottish Gaelic: dubh
  • Manx: doo

Noun

dub n (genitive dubo)

  1. 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?
  2. gall

Inflection

Neuter u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative dubN — —
Vocative dubN — —
Accusative dubN — —
Genitive duboH, dubaH — —
Dative dubL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
dub dub
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ 		ndub
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰanw-.

Noun

dub m (Cyrillic spelling дуб)

  1. (Croatia, archaic) oak (wood)
  2. (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!

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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)

  1. oak, oak tree

Declension

Declension of dub
singular plural
nominative dub duby
genitive duba dubov
dative dubu dubom
accusative dub duby
locative dube duboch
instrumental dubom dubmi

Derived terms

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)

  1. (music) dub

Volapük

Preposition

dub

  1. due to, because of

Derived terms

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