tub

From Middle English tubbe, tobbe, from Middle Dutch tubbe or Middle Low German tubbe, tobbe, further etymology unknown. Considered to be unrelated to tube[1].

• IPA^(key): /tʌb/
• Rhymes: -ʌb

tub (plural tubs)

Tub of cottage cheese, lid, and lidding film

1. A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.

   He bought a tub of lard to roast the potatoes in.

2. The contents or capacity of such a vessel.

   He added a tub of margarine to the stew.

3. A bathtub.
4. (nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.
5. (humorous or derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
   • South

     All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth.

6. A small cask.

   a tub of gin

7. Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
8. (mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
9. (obsolete) A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.

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

10. (slang) A corpulent or obese person.
    • 2003, Trey Ellis, Platitudes: & the New Black Aesthetic (page 139)

      Donald tells him to be more realistic. Take those two girls over there, for example. One's a zitface and the other's a tub, so they'd be perfect for them.

• bathtub
• hot tub
• tubby

tub (third-person singular simple present tubs, present participle tubbing, simple past and past participle tubbed)

1. (transitive) To plant, set, or store in a tub.

   to tub a plant

2. (transitive, intransitive) To bathe in a tub.
   • London Spectator

     Don't we all tub in England?

• tub on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• BTU, TBU, but, but-

From Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

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

tub m (plural tubs)

1. tube

• tubular

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

tub

1. brick

tub

1. lid

Borrowed from French tube, Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

• IPA^(key): [tub]

tub n (plural tuburi)

1. tube

tub

1. son

• Ernest E. Heimbach, White Hmong - English Dictionary (1979, SEAP Publications)