chub
See also: chúb
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: chŭb, IPA(key): /t͡ʃʌb/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌb
Etymology 1
From chub (“short, thick fish species used as bait"; used metaphorically since 1558 for "lazy person”), from Middle English chubbe (“chub (the river fish)”), recorded since c.1450, probably an assibilated form of cub (“a lump, heap, mass”) and cob, from Middle English *cubbe (found only in derivative cubbel (“a block to which an animal is tethered”)), from Old Norse kubbr, kumbr (“block, stump, log”) and/or Old Norse kumben (“stumpy”). Cognate with Icelandic kubbur (“block, cube”), Norwegian kubb, kubbe (“block, stump, log”), Swedish kubb (“block, log”), and perhaps to Icelandic kubba (“to hew, chop, lop”) and Russian кубышка (kubyška). More at cob, kibble.
Noun
chub (plural chubs or chub)
- One of various species of freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae or carp family, especially:
- A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus)
- In Europe, its close relatives, notably the fallfish.
- (by extension) Any of various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes.
- In North America, the black bass.
Derived terms
- chub bread
- chubby
- hornyhead chub
- river chub
- sea chub
- silver chub
Translations
Leuciscus cephalus
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Etymology 2
Back-formation from chubby.
Noun
chub (countable and uncountable, plural chubs)
- (slang, countable) A chubby, plump person.
- (LGBT slang, countable) An overweight or obese gay man.
- (uncountable) Excess body fat.
- 2014, David Tieck, Ok, Intriguing, page 149:
- so all this chub and lack of fitness will be something I embrace in two days when I quit my new diet and exercise plan.
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- An erection (erect penis).
- 2017, Piper Rayne, Sexy Beast:
- I shift in my seat trying to get comfortable refusing to believe that my dick is in full chub mode right now because of the girl whose pigtails I used to pull to try to drive her crazy when she was younger.
- 2018, J.R. Hamilton, Low: Charlie's Drunkalogue:
- The DA was a hot young woman who gave me a chub when she finally showed up in a business skirt with a slit in the side, after I had sat around waiting for her for three hours.
- 2019, Chad Stroup, Sexy Leper:
- He briefly wondered what Carey might look like naked in his new womanly body, then realized his thoughts were in bad form, thankfully before he had a chance to get an inappropriate chub.
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- A plastic or other flexible package of meat, usually ground meat or luncheon meat.
- 1998, Center for Public Integrity, Safety last: the politics of e. coli and other food-borne killers:
- One thing that makes recovering product harder is grocery stores' and restaurants' practice of regrinding one company's lot, or "chub," of meat with those from other companies, thus making trace-back harder.
- 1999, Walter Soroka, Fundamentals of packaging technology:
- Chub packaging is versatile. Package sizes can range from miniature tubes up to 150-mm diameter and 1220 mm in length (6-in. diameter and 48 in. long). Virtually any pumpable paste can be filled into a chub pack
- 2001, John R. Romans, The meat we eat:
- A typical gelbwurst chub is 24 inches long and about 2V2 inches thick.
- 2004, Alberta Beef Producers, I Love Alberta Beef, page 15:
- Once opened, use or freeze the meat within one day. Tube or chub packaging is used for fresh or frozen ground beef. Use or freeze fresh meat chubs within a day
- 2007, Greg M. Burnham, Predicting pathogen growth and death in raw meat and poultry, page 86:
- A time/temperature history for either the product (4.5 kg chubs of coarse-ground beef) or the storage environment ... After inoculation, the surface of each 4.5-kg coarse-ground beef chub contained six samples inoculated with E. coli
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Derived terms
- chub rub
- chub up
- Cortez sea chub
- semi-chub
Translations
chubby person
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References
- chub at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- HBCU