Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground. · To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots. · To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe.
Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump. · A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes. · A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior. · A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
From Middle English stubbe (“tree stump”), from Old English stybb, stubb (“tree stump”), from Proto-West Germanic *stubb, from Proto-Germanic *stubbaz (compare Middle Dutch stubbe, Old Norse stubbr, Faroese stubbi (“stub”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew-; compare steep (“sharp slope”). Doublet of stob. Sense extended in Middle English to similarly shaped objects. Verb sense “strike one’s toe” is recorded 1848; “extinguish a cigarette” 1927.
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