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Cub   /kəb/   Listen
noun
Cub  n.  
1.
A young animal, esp. the young of the bear.
2.
Jocosely or in contempt, a boy or girl, esp. an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy. "O, thou dissembling cub! what wilt thou be When time hath sowed a grizzle on thy case?"


Cub  n.  
1.
A stall for cattle. (Obs.) "I would rather have such...in cub or kennel than in my closet or at my table."
2.
A cupboard. (Obs.)


verb
Cub  v. t. & v. i.  (past & past part. cubbed; pres. part. cubbing)  To bring forth; said of animals, or in contempt, of persons. "Cubb'd in a cabin."


Cub  v. t.  To shut up or confine. (Obs.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Cub" Quotes from Famous Books



... get me right? I was saying that Prue is too fine a girl to be allowed to mingle with that tango set. I'm going to cowhide that Hippisley cub. And Prue's not going to ...
— In a Little Town • Rupert Hughes
... Lord Squib; 'not Sophy, surely I thought she was to be your cousin. I dare say,' he added, 'a false report. I suppose, to use a Bagshotism, his governor wants it; but I should think Lord Cub would not yet be taken in. By-the-bye, he says you have promised to propose him ...
— The Young Duke • Benjamin Disraeli
... furiously. "You'll soon find out that it is, for you and the English cub. Our soldiers were here looking for you last night. I know where they ...
— A Young Hero • G Manville Fenn
... that hard luck? To think of his being downed by a cub of a junior! Though that same junior is going to be a fine player some day. He drives just grand. He had too much handicap, he did. Remsen didn't know anything about him, and allowed him ...
— The Half-Back • Ralph Henry Barbour
... of their sisters who are in prison. The whole assemblage, with the exception of such stragglers as myself, who have a motive in studying it, is a mess of the meanest human rubbish that a great city exudes. In the company there is a large preponderance of the cub of seventeen and eighteen. Some of these boys are the sons of merchants and lawyers, and are 'seeing life.' If they were told to go into their kitchens at home and talk with the cook and the chambermaid, they would consider themselves insulted. Yet they come here ...
— Lights and Shadows of New York Life - or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City • James D. McCabe


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