cub

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kʌb/

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• Rhymes: -ʌb

Origin unknown. Perhaps compare Old Norse or Icelandic kobbi (“seal”), Old Irish cuib (“whelp”).[1]

a cub.

cub (plural cubs)

1. A young fox.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 32, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     a Childe of Lacedemon suffered all his belly and gutts to be torne out by a Cubbe or young Foxe, which he had stolne, and kept close under his garment, rather then he would discover his theft.

2. (by extension) The young of certain other animals, including the bear, wolf, lion and tiger.
3. (humorous or derogatory) A child, especially an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy.
   • Shakespeare

     O, thou dissembling cub! what wilt thou be / When time hath sowed a grizzle on thy case?

4. (slang) A young man who seeks relationships with older women, or "cougars".
5. (obsolete) A stall for cattle.
   • Landor

     I would rather have such […] in cubor kennel than in my closet or at my table.

6. (obsolete) A cupboard.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Laud to this entry?)

• cub reporter

cub (third-person singular simple present cubs, present participle cubbing, simple past and past participle cubbed)

1. To give birth to cubs
2. To hunt fox cubs
3. (obsolete) To shut up or confine.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burton to this entry?)

cub

1. cashed up bogan.

• BUC, UBC

Either from a semantic derivate of cub 'short tailed', or related to East-Germanic, maybe from Gothic 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐍆𐍃 (þiufs),this less likely though. [1]

cub m (indefinite plural cuba, definite singular cubi, definite plural cubat)

1. bully
2. robber, brigand

From Latin cubus.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkup/

cub m (plural cubs)

1. cube (regular polyhedron having six square faces)
2. (mathematics) cube (the third power of a number)

• cúbic

• “cub” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From French cube, Latin cubus.

cub n (plural cuburi)

1. cube