Cub

Definition: Cub

Cub

Noun

1. An awkward and inexperienced youth.

2. A male child (a familiar term of address to a boy).

3. The young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion.

Verb

1. Give birth to cubs, as of bears, for example.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cub" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Literature

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Cub

Amorphism

Amorphism, informity; unlicked cub; rudis indigestaque moles; disorder; deformity.

Commonalty

Peasant, countryman, boor, carle, churl; villain, villein; terrae filius; serf, kern, tyke, tike, chuff, ryot, fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy; rustic, hayseed, lunkhead, chaw-bacon, tiller of the soil; hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling; gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin, looby, rube, lout, underling; gamin; rough; pot-wallopper, slubberdegullion; vulgar fellow, low fellow; cad, curmudgeon.

Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo; unlicked cub, rough diamond.

Discourtesy

Bear, bruin, brute, blackguard, beast; unlicked cub; frump, crosspatch; saucebox; crooked stick; grizzly.

Infant

Child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling, bratling; elf. youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master. scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin,codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb, lambkin; aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle.

Vulgarity

Rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub; clown; (commonalty); Goth, Vandal, Boeotian; snob, cad, gent; parvenu; frump, dowdy; slattern.

Crosswords: Cub

Albanian (bandolero), Occitan (cube), Romanian (bricks, cube, cubic).

Now he's a cub scout. (It Happened at the World's Fair; writing credit: Si Rose ; Seaman Jacobs)

The Vagabond Cub (1929)

Adopting a Bear Cub (1921)

The Tiger's Cub (1920)

Old Hartwell's Cub (1918)

The Cub (1915)

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Books

• Lone Wolf and Cub 1: The Assasin's Road (reference)

• Lone Wolf and Cub 4: The Bell Warden (reference)

• Lone Wolf and Cub 5: Black Wind (reference)

• Lone Wolf and Cub 6: Lanterns for the Dead (reference)

• Lone Wolf and Cub 8: Chains of Death (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Lone Wolf and Cub - Sword of Vengeance (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Loading a stripped down Piper Cub on the PIONEER Plane used to tend tide gages and do reconnaissance. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Billy as a cub being fed by Leo O. Colbert. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Cub Scouts are volunteering by planting trees. Credit: Mel Ingeroi.

"Volunteer Melanie Robertson and Cub Scout Dustin Howells helps clean up BLM lands". Credit: Saundra Miles.

Chicago, Ill. Mar. 1942. Ida B. Wells housing project A meeting of the Cub Scouts in the community center / John Delano. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Cub Stricker. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tiger cub. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lion with cub. Credit: Library of Congress.

The cub grows up. Credit: Library of Congress.

Views of Yumurí, Matanzas, Cub. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "cub": bear cub ♦ cub reporter ♦ cub Run ♦ cub scout ♦ cub shark ♦ fox cub ♦ lion cub ♦ predator cub ♦ tiger cub ♦ unlicked cub ♦ wolf cub. Additional references.

Beginning with "cub": cub-hunting, cub-reporter, Cub-scouts.

Ending with "cub": bear-cub, Wolf-cub.

Albanian

visk (colt, foal), këlysh (calf, henchman, Ling, puppy, whelp, youngling), i ri i pasjellshëm. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فتى أو فتاة, ‏مراسل تعوزه الخبرة, ‏صغير الحوت, ‏جرو الثعلب. (various references)

Bulgarian 

ходя на лов за малки лисици, хлапе (bantling, kid, kiddy, nipper, whelp), куча се (pup, whelp), кутре (little finger, pinky, pup, puppy), вълче, новак (acolyte, apprentice, catechumen, fresher, freshman, greener, infant, mug, neophyte, novice, tiro, tyro, youngster), малка акула, зверче. (various references)

Chinese 

幼獸 . (various references)

Czech

zelenáè (apprentice, fledgeling, fledgling, greener, milksop, rookie, sucker), mládì (little one, whelp, young). (various references)

Dutch

volontair (volunteer). (various references)

Farsi 

توله زاءیدن (Pup, Whelp), توله (Whelp), اخور (Bin, Crib, Manger, Stall), بچه پستانداران گوشتخوار, بچه شیر. (various references)

Finnish

pentu (brat, pup kitten), penikka (pup, puppy), karhunpentu. (various references)

French

gosse. (various references)

German

welpe (pup, puppy, whelp), junge (boy, chap, fellow, guy, Jack, kid, kitten, knave, lad, laddie, male child, nestling, offspring, oh boy!, pup, puppy, young, young one, youngster). (various references)

Greek 

σκύμνοσ (whelp), νεογνό ζώου (young). (various references)

Hebrew 

�'ור (whelp, young). (various references)

Hungarian

tacskó (dachshund, stripling kid, stripling youth), kölyök (brat, calf, imp, kid, kiddie, kiddy, mere slip of a boy, pickaninny, urchin, whelp). (various references)

Indonesian

dan sebagainya (etcetera), anak nakal (brat), anak harimau. (various references)

Italian

cucciolo (pup, puppy, whelp, youngling), piccolo (brief, child, diminutive, little, little one, low, mean, petty, short, skimpy, slight, small, tiny, trifling, young). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

カバー曲 (black coffee, Cabala, cafe, cafe a la creme, cafe au lait, cafe bar, cafe cabaret, cafe royal, cafeteria, caffeine, capital, cappuccino, capriccio, capsule, capsule hotel, cavalier, coupler, coverage, cub scout, cuff links, cuffs, expresso coffee, Kabbalah, Kabul, Neapolitan coffee, Qabalah, remake of another artist's song, sidewalk cafe). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

カブ . (various references)

Manx

quallian (pup, puppy, whelp). (various references)

Papago

judumi mad (bear cub). (various references)

Pig Latin

ubcay

Portuguese

rapaz simplório, parir (calve, cast, douche, farrow, fawn, foal, give birth, give birth to, kid, kitten, lamb, pup, teem, yean), lobinho, grosseiro (awkward, bearish, blanket, boorish, bumbling, caddish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse-grained, common, crass, crude, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, earthy, gross, gruff, harsh, heavy-handed, hoggish, homely, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelaborate, joggly, lacerated, left-handed, lob, loutish, low-bred, lubberly, lumpish, piggish, ragged, ribald, rough, rude, rugged, scurrilous, surly, swinish, thick, uncivil, uncouth, uncultivated, unkind, unladylike, unmannerly, unparliamentary, untaught, vulgar, vulgarian, wooden), filho de raposa, dar � luz (give birth, yean). (various references)

Romanian

copil prost crescut (jackanapes), cãţel (doggie, doggy, flunkey, pup, puppy, toady, whelp, young dog), pui (aerie, baby, calf, chick, chicken, chuck, dear, fledgeling, get, nestling, whelp, young), novice (apprentice, beginner, callow, colt, entrant, fledgeling, greenhorn, innocent, intrant, neophyte, new, novice, probationer, recruit, tenderfoot, tiro, tyro, untried), lupuşor. (various references)

Russian 

щенок (pup, puppy, whelp), щениться, детеныш (calf, youngster). (various references)

Scottish

cuilean (a whelp, pup, whelp, young dog). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ošteniti se (whelp), mladunče divlje zveri, žutokljunac (fledgling, greenhorn). (various references)

Spanish

cachorro (pup, puppy, whelp). (various references)

Swedish

vargunge, djurunge. (various references)

Turkish

yontulmamış genç (unlicked cub), yavrulamak (breed, calve, drop, farrow, fawn, foal, have kitten, kid, kitten, litter, pig, propagate, pup, spawn, teem, throw, whelp, yean), yavru (baby, child, little one, offspring, whelp, young, young animal, youngster), terbiyesiz genç (unlicked cub), acemi (apprentice, beginner, bungler, callow, catechumen, clumsy, colt, dabster, green, greenhorn, guiltless, half-baked, inept, inexperienced, inexperienced hand, inexpert, jackaroo, johnny-come-lately, learner, neophyte, new, novice, Prentice, punk, raw, recruit, runnynose, simple, stooge, strange, stranger, sucking, tenderfoot, tiro, trainee, tyro, unbaked, unfledged, unseasoned, unskilled, untrained, unversed, young, young in one's job). (various references)

Ukrainian

щеня (pup, puppy, whelp), щенитися (pup, whelp), новачок (apprentice, fresher, freshman, greener, new-come, rabbit, rookie, tenderfoot, tiro, tyro, undergraduate, youngling). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sư tử, sói, gấu. (various references)

Welsh

cenau (rascal, whelp). (various references)

catuli, catulis, catulorum, catulos, catulus. (various references)

cuib. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cub": cubage, cubages, cubature, cubatures, cubbies, cubbish, cubby, cubbyhole, cubbyholes, cube, cubeb, cubebs, cubed, cuber, cubers, cubes, cubic, cubical, cubically, cubicities, cubicity, cubicle, cubicles, cubicly, cubics, cubicula, cubiculum, cubiform, cubing, cubism, cubisms, cubist, cubistic, cubists, cubit, cubital, cubits, cuboid, cuboidal, cuboids, cubs. (additional references)

Words containing "cub": aucuba, aucubas, concubinage, concubinages, concubine, concubines, elucubrate, elucubrated, elucubrates, elucubrating, elucubration, elucubrations, flashcube, flashcubes, hypercube, hypercubes, incubate, incubated, incubates, incubating, incubation, incubations, incubative, incubator, incubators, incubatory, incubi, incubus, incubuses, lucubration, lucubrations, scuba, scubas, succuba, succubae, succubas, succubi, succubus, succubuses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cub" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cb, cbd, cbi, cbl, cbm, cbt, ccb, Ccbi, Ccojb, ccu, ccuf, ceb, cfb, cfu, chulb, cib, Cibc, Cibd, cmu, cobb, cobi, coub, crub, csb, cua, cubb, cubo, Cubr, cubt, cuc, cuf, cug, cuh, cuib, cuj, cumb, cuo, cuq, Cuu, cuv, cuw, cux, cuy, cuz, cyb, Ecob, eub, Icgb, icob, kaub, kob, kub, Ncgub, scbu, uc, Ucbc, ucjba, Ucw, ucx, zub. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

+1 letter: buck, chub, club, cube, cubs, curb.

+2 letters: bucko, bucks, bunch, bunco, butch, chubs, clubs, crumb, cubby, cubeb, cubed, cuber, cubes, cubic, cubit, curbs, pubic, scrub, scuba.

+3 letters: abacus, abduce, abduct, abulic, aucuba, backup, bacula, bonduc, boucle, bounce, bouncy, brucin, brunch, buccal, bucked, bucker, bucket, buckle, buckos, buckra, bunchy, buncos, bustic, chabuk, cherub, chubby, clubby, cobnut, crumbs, crumby, cubage, cubebs, cubers, cubics, cubing, cubism, cubist, cubits, cuboid, cumber, curbed, curber, hubcap, incubi, lubric, public, rubace, rubric, sacbut, scrubs, scubas, uncurb.