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DubEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Clipping of Dubliner.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗dubEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English dubben, from Old English dubbian (“to knight by striking with a sword, dub”) from Old French adober (“to equip with arms; adorn”) (also 11th century, Modern French adouber), both from Proto-West Germanic *dubbōn, from Proto-Germanic *dub- (“to hit, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“plug, peg, wedge”). Cognate with Icelandic dubba (in dubba til riddara). Compare also drub for an English reflex of the Germanic word.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗dubEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
dubEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
1885-90. Imitative; see also flub, flubdub.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗dubEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
From a shortening of the word double.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗dubEnglish (en) · Etymology 5Source text
From Celtic; compare Irish dobhar (“water”), Welsh dŵr (“water”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗dubEnglish (en) · Etymology 6Source text
From shortening of double dime (“twenty”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗dubEnglish (en) · Etymology 7Source text
From dup (“to open”), from do + up, from Middle English don up (“to open”).
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Chambers (1908)
1908- DubEnglish · e-37683-8635
Dub, dub, v.t. to confer knighthood, from the ceremony of striking the shoulder with the flat of a sword: to confer any name or dignity: to smooth with an adze: to rub a softening and waterproof mixture into, as leather:
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Dub, dub, n. (Scot.) a pool of foul water: a puddle.
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