bathtub | (noun) a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body | Synonyms: bathing tub, tub |
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bedaub | (verb) spread or daub (a surface) | Synonyms: besmear |
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blub | (verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blubber, sniffle, snivel, snuffle |
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bookclub | (noun) a club that people join in order to buy selected books at reduced prices | - |
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brewpub | (noun) a combination brewery and restaurant; beer is brewed for consumption on the premises and served along with food | - |
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cherub | (noun) an angel of the second order whose gift is knowledge; usually portrayed as a winged child | - |
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(noun) a sweet innocent baby | - |
chub | (noun) European freshwater game fish with a thick spindle-shaped body | Synonyms: Leuciscus cephalus |
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club | (noun) stout stick that is larger at one end | - |
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(noun) golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball | Synonyms: golf-club, golf club, golfclub |
(noun) a building that is occupied by a social club | Synonyms: clubhouse |
(noun) a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more black trefoils on it | - |
(noun) a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink | Synonyms: cabaret, night club, nightclub, nightspot |
(noun) a formal association of people with similar interests | Synonyms: gild, guild, lodge, order, social club, society |
(noun) a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together | Synonyms: ball club, baseball club, nine |
(verb) strike with a club or a bludgeon | Synonyms: bludgeon |
(verb) gather into a club-like mass | - |
(verb) gather and spend time together | - |
(verb) unite with a common purpose | - |
cub | (noun) the young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion | Synonyms: young carnivore |
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(noun) a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) | Synonyms: lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boy |
(noun) an awkward and inexperienced youth | Synonyms: greenhorn, rookie |
(verb) give birth to cubs | - |
daub | (noun) an unskillful painting | - |
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(noun) a blemish made by dirt | Synonyms: blot, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, spot |
(noun) material used to daub walls | - |
(verb) cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it | Synonyms: smear |
(verb) coat with plaster | Synonyms: plaster |
(verb) apply to a surface | - |
drub | (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, lick, thrash |
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dub | (noun) the new sounds added by dubbing | - |
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(verb) give a nickname to | Synonyms: nickname |
(verb) provide (movies) with a soundtrack of a foreign language | - |
(verb) raise (someone) to knighthood | Synonyms: knight |
flub | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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(verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
golfclub | (noun) golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball | Synonyms: club, golf-club, golf club |
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grub | (noun) a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects | - |
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(noun) informal terms for a meal | Synonyms: chow, chuck, eats |
(verb) search about busily | - |
(verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: bum, cadge, mooch, sponge |
hardsub | (noun) (often plural) a subtitle whose text is irreversibly merged in original video frames. | Synonyms: hard subtitle |
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hub | (noun) the central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes | - |
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(noun) a center of activity or interest or commerce or transportation; a focal point around which events revolve | - |
hubbub | (noun) loud confused noise from many sources | Synonyms: brouhaha, katzenjammer, uproar |
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minisub | (noun) submersible vessel for one or two persons; for naval operations or underwater exploration | Synonyms: minisubmarine |
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nightclub | (noun) a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink | Synonyms: cabaret, club, night club, nightspot |
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nub | (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, pith, substance, sum |
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(noun) a small piece | Synonyms: stub |
(noun) a small lump or protuberance | Synonyms: nubble |
pub | (noun) tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals | Synonyms: gin mill, pothouse, public house, saloon, taphouse |
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rub | (noun) the act of rubbing or wiping | Synonyms: wipe |
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(noun) an unforeseen obstacle | Synonyms: hang-up, hitch, snag |
(verb) move over something with pressure | - |
(verb) cause friction | Synonyms: chafe, fray, fret, scratch |
(verb) scrape or rub as if to relieve itching | Synonyms: itch, scratch |
scrub | (adjective) (of domestic animals) not selectively bred | - |
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(noun) the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water | Synonyms: scouring, scrubbing |
(noun) dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes | Synonyms: bush, chaparral |
(verb) wash thoroughly | Synonyms: scrub up |
(verb) clean with hard rubbing | Synonyms: scour |
(verb) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled | Synonyms: call off, cancel, scratch |
shrub | (noun) a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems | Synonyms: bush |
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sillabub | (noun) sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor | Synonyms: syllabub |
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(noun) spiced hot milk with rum or wine | Synonyms: syllabub |
slub | (noun) soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design | Synonyms: burl, knot |
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snub | (adjective) unusually short | - |
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(noun) a refusal to recognize someone you know | Synonyms: cold shoulder, cut |
(noun) an instance of driving away or warding off | Synonyms: rebuff, repulse |
(verb) reject outright and bluntly | Synonyms: rebuff, repel |
(verb) refuse to acknowledge | Synonyms: cut, disregard, ignore |
stub | (noun) the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking) | Synonyms: butt |
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(noun) a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt | Synonyms: ticket stub |
(noun) the part of a check that is retained as a record | Synonyms: check stub, counterfoil |
(noun) a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost | - |
(noun) a small piece | Synonyms: nub |
(verb) strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object | - |
(verb) clear of weeds by uprooting them | - |
(verb) extinguish by crushing | Synonyms: crush out, extinguish, press out, stub out |
(verb) pull up (weeds) by their roots | - |
sub | (noun) a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes | Synonyms: pigboat, submarine |
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(noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
(verb) be a substitute | Synonyms: fill in, stand in, substitute |
subshrub | (noun) low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base | Synonyms: suffrutex |
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syllabub | (noun) sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor | Synonyms: sillabub |
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(noun) spiced hot milk with rum or wine | Synonyms: sillabub |
tub | (noun) a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids | Synonyms: vat |
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(noun) a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body | Synonyms: bathing tub, bathtub |
(noun) the amount that a tub will hold | Synonyms: tubful |
undershrub | (noun) a low shrub | - |
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washtub | (noun) a tub in which clothes or linens can be washed | - |
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