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Definitions: BUB |
BUBNoun1. A young brother; a little boy; -- a familiar term of address of a small boy. 2. Strong malt liquor. Transitive verb1. To throw out in bubbles; to bubble. |
Date "BUB" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1884. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Bub Drink. (Connected with bubble - Latin, bibo, to drink; our imbibe.) (See Grub. ) "Drunk with Helicon's waters and double-brewed bub."- Prior: To a Person who wrote ill. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | BUB. Strong beer. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BUB |
| English words defined with "BUB": Bubby. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BUB": BUB. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "BUB": sillabub. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "BUB" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. German (boy, lad). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | That's my hand bub, and I don't need magic to turn it into a fist! (The Fairly OddParents; writing credit: Philippe Setbon) Hey, bub, I'm not finished with you yet. (X-Men; writing credit: Tom DeSanto; Bryan Singer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Schweig Bub! (1990) Bub Schweig (1983) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "BUB" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 44.44% of the time. "BUB" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 44.44% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Unclassified Items | 33.33% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 22.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BUB" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bub | Last name | 170 | 44,390 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "BUB": hub-bub, Virus-bub. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bub exhaust | 103 | bub rinehart exhaust | 4 |
bub rub | 69 | bub big willy | 3 |
bub | 67 | bub weather | 3 |
bub rubb | 23 | bub hug | 3 |
bub pipe | 19 | bub lil rubb sis | 3 |
bub enterprise | 18 | bottle bub full | 2 |
big bub | 13 | bub little rub sis | 2 |
bub motorcycle exhaust | 12 | bub ent | 2 |
bub lil rub sis | 12 | bub heidi | 2 |
bob bub | 10 | bub motorcycle pipe | 2 |
bub protect | 7 | bub by chambermaids | 2 |
bub rinehart | 7 | bub by rinehart | 2 |
bub rub woo woo | 7 | bub dickey | 2 |
bub exhaust system | 7 | bub rub whistle | 2 |
air bub | 5 | bub stubbies | 2 |
bub mufflers | 5 | bottle bub | 2 |
bub exhaust pipe | 4 | bub davidson exhaust harley | 2 |
bub chambermaids | 4 | ||
bub davidson exhaust harley | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "BUB"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fiú (boy, bucko, buster, groom, hard case, he, lad, son, yob, yobbo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ubbay bere tare (knock down, lager). (various references) міцне пиво (stingo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BUB": bubal, bubale, bubales, bubaline, bubalis, bubalises, bubals, bubbies, bubble, bubbled, bubblegum, bubblegums, bubblehead, bubbleheaded, bubbleheads, bubbler, bubblers, bubbles, bubblier, bubblies, bubbliest, bubbling, bubbly, bubby, bubinga, bubingas, bubo, buboed, buboes, bubonic, bubs. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "BUB": hubbub, sillabub, sillibub, syllabub. (additional references) | |
Words containing "BUB": abubble, hubbubs, sillabubs, sillibubs, syllabubs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BUB" (pronounced bu"b) |
| 2 | -u" b | club, cub, drub, dub, grub, hub, nub, pub, rub, scrub, shrub, snub, stub, sub, tub. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-u" | |
+1 letter: babu, blub, bubo, bubs, bulb. | |
+2 letters: babul, babus, blubs, blurb, bubal, bubby, bulbs, burbs, busby, cubby, cubeb, hubby, nubby, tubby. | |
+3 letters: babuls, barbut, baubee, bauble, bedaub, bedbug, bedumb, benumb, blurbs, boubou, brumby, bubale, bubals, bubble, bubbly, buboed, buboes, bulbar, bulbed, bulbel, bulbil, bulbul, bumble, burble, burbly, burbot, busbar, busboy, chubby, clubby, cubebs, dibbuk, dubbed, dubber, dubbin, dybbuk, fubbed, grubby, hubbly, hubbub, jubbah, knubby, lubber, nubbin, nubble, nubbly, rubbed, rubber, rubble, rubbly, snubby, stubby, subbed, subdeb, suburb, tubbed, tubber. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 55 42 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... ..- -... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01010101 01000010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B U B |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0055 0042 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)365536 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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