dub

• IPA^(key): /dʌb/

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• Rhymes: -ʌb

From a Late Old English (11th century) word dubban (“to knight by striking with a sword”) perhaps borrowed from Old French aduber, adober "equip with arms; adorn" (also 11th century, Modern French adouber), from Frankish *dubban, from Proto-Germanic *dubjaną (“to fit”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“plug, peg, wedge”).

Cognate with Icelandic dubba (dubba til riddara). Compare also drub for an English reflex of the Germanic word.

dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed)

1. (transitive) (now historical) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword.
2. (transitive) To name, to entitle, to call. [from the later 16th c]
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”

   • 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:

     Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.

3. (transitive) To deem.
   • Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

     A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth.

4. To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
   • Morte d'Arthure

     His diadem was dropped down / Dubbed with stones.

5. (heading) To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.
   1. To dress with an adze.

      to dub a stick of timber smooth

   2. To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.

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   3. To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.

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   4. To dress a fishing fly.

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6. To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.

• (to confer knighthood): knight
• (to name, to entitle, to call.): designate, name; see also Thesaurus:denominate
• (to deem): consider, think of; see also Thesaurus:deem
• (to clothe or invest): deck out, embellish; see also Thesaurus:decorate

1505-1515 This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed)

1. To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
   • Beaumont and Fletcher

     Now the drum dubs.

2. To do something badly.
3. In golf, to execute a shot poorly.

dub (plural dubs)

1. (rare) A blow, thrust, or poke.

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1885-90; Imitative, see also flub, flubdub

dub (plural dubs)

1. (now historical) (slang) An unskillful, awkward person. [from the later part of the 19th c]
   • 1936, P. G. Wodehouse, There's Always Golf‎, London: The Strand Magazine:

     As I came over the hill, I saw Ernest Plinlimmon and his partner, in whom I recognized a prominent local dub, emerging from the rough on the right. Apparently, the latter had sliced from the tee, and Ernest had been helping him find his ball.

From a shortening of the word double.

dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed)

1. To add sound to film or change audio on film. [from the first half of the 20th c]
2. To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
3. To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
4. To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.

• overdub

• ADR
• revoice

dub (plural dubs)

1. (music) A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
2. (music) A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
3. (music) A growing trend of music from 2009 to current in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.
4. (slang) A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.
   • 2001, Nancy Macdonald, The Graffiti Subculture (page 84)

     […] we climbed up the scaffolding and did these gold little dubs and you couldn't see them.

   • 2011, Justin Rollins, The Lost Boyz: A Dark Side of Graffiti (page 34)

     The year 1998 was alive with graffiti and trains pulling up with dubs on their sides.

5. The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; dubbing.

From Celtic; compare Irish dobhar (“water”), Welsh dŵr (“water”).

dub (plural dubs)

1. (Britain, dialectal) A pool or puddle.

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From shortening of double dime (“twenty”).

dub (plural dubs)

1. (slang) A twenty dollar sack of marijuana.
2. (slang) A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.

From dup (“to open”), from do + up, from Middle English don up (“to open”).

dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed)

1. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) To open or close.
   • 1828, Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, chapter LXXXIII, in Pelham: or The Adventures of a Gentleman‎, page 402:

     "Crash the cull—down with him—down with him before he dubs the jigger. Tip him the degan, Fib, fake him through and through; if he pikes we shall all be scragged."

dub (plural dubs)

1. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) A lock.
2. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) A key, especially a master key; a lockpick.
   • 1789, Parker, George, Life's Painter of Variegated Characters in Public and Private Life, page 162:

     […] going upon the dobbin, is a woman dressed like a servant maid, no hat nor cloak on, a bunch of young dubs by her side, which are a bunch of small keys […]

• BDU, Bud, DBU, bud

From Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ (“oak tree, oak”)

• IPA^(key): [ˈdup]
• Rhymes: -up
• Homophone: dup

dub m inan

1. oak, oak tree

• dub in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• dub in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

• bud

From Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ.

• IPA^(key): /dup/

dub m

1. oak

From Proto-Celtic *dubus (“black”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“black, deep”).

• IPA^(key): /duv/

dub

1. black
2. morally dark, dire, gloomy, melancholy

• Irish: dubh
• Scottish Gaelic: dubh
• Manx: doo

dub n (genitive dubo)

1. black pigment, ink
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 15a10

     ó dub glosses atramento

   • c. 875, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 13d1

     in maith a n-dubso amne

     is this ink good thus?

2. gall

• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “dub”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, ISBN 9780901714299

From Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰanw-.

dub m (Cyrillic spelling дуб)

1. (Croatia, archaic) oak (wood)
2. (Croatia, archaic) oak tree
   • c. 1840, Dragutin Rakovac (translating Samuel Tomášik), Hej, Slaveni:

     Stijena puca, dub se lama, zemlja nek’ se trese!

     The rock cracks, the oak breaks, let the earth quake!

• hrast

• Dubrovnik

From Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ

• IPA^(key): /ˈdup/

dub m (genitive singular duba, nominative plural duby, genitive plural dubov, declension pattern of dub)

1. oak, oak tree

• dub in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

dub m (plural dubs)

1. (music) dub

dub

1. due to, because of

• dubä