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Is cub a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word cub is a Scrabble US word. The word cub is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is cub a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word cub is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

C3U1B3

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Definitions and meaning of cub

cub

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /kʌb/
  • Rhymes: -ʌb

Etymology 1

From earlier cubbe. Origin unknown. According to Pokorny, from Proto-Germanic *kubb-, from Proto-Indo-European *gup- (“round object, knoll”), from *gew- (“to bend, curve, arch, vault”).

Compare Icelandic and Old Norse kobbi (“seal”), Old Irish cuib (“whelp”). Compare also English cob.

Alternative forms

  • cubbe (obsolete)

Noun

cub (plural cubs)

  1. A young fox.
  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.
  4. (slang) A young man who seeks relationships with older women, or "cougars".
  5. (obsolete) A stall for cattle.
  6. Synonym of cub reporter
  7. (furry fandom) A furry character who is a child.
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Translations

Verb

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.

Etymology 2

Noun

cub (plural cubs)

  1. Acronym of cashed up bogan.

See also

  • cub fos (etymologically unrelated)

References

Anagrams

  • BUC, UBC

Albanian

Etymology

From South Slavic; compare Serbo-Croatian ćȕba ‘tuft, crest’, Polish czub ‘crest; tip’.

However, Mann posits that the noun might be from Gothic 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐍆𐍃 (þiufs).

Adjective

cub (feminine cube)

  1. bobtailed, having a docked tail
  2. awnless (of grain)

Derived terms

Noun

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

  1. mountain bandit, robber, brigand, highwayman
  2. (figurative) crazy hero, crazy fool

Derived terms

References

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cubus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈkup]

Noun

cub m (plural cubs)

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

Related terms

  • cúbic

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cube, from Latin cubus.

Noun

cub n (plural cuburi)

  1. cube

Yola

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish caobach.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kuːb/

Noun

cub

  1. A small gull.

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 32

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