Dub

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dub"

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of Dubliner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʌb/
• Rhymes: -ʌb

Noun

Dub (plural Dubs)

1. (Ireland, colloquial) A Dubliner.
   • 1993, Mary P. Corcoran, Irish Illegals: Transients Between Two Societies, page 138:

     There is a distinction between Dubliners on the one hand and "rednecks" on the other. […] The Dubs historically went to Liverpool and Birmingham, so they don't have the connections.

   • 1994, Patrick O'Dea, A Class of Our Own: Conversations About Class in Ireland, page 51:

     I did the Pat Kenny show one night and talked about coming from the bottom up, and I got numerous letters, saying to hear somebody with a Dub accent running the brewery was unbelievable.

   • 2018, Sally Rooney, “Three Months Later (March 2014)”, in Normal People:

     Eric released her, grinning. You're a Dub anyway, he said.

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Dub

1. (after a qualification) Abbreviation of University of Dublin, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.

See also

• U of Dub

Anagrams

• BDU, BUD, Bud, DBU, bud

Czech

Etymology

From dub (“oak”). First attested in 1367.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdup]
• Homophones: dup, dub

Proper noun

Dub m anim (female equivalent Dubová)

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Dub (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	Dub	Dubové
genitive	Duba	Dubů
dative	Dubovi	Dubům
accusative	Duba	Duby
vocative	Dube	Dubové
locative	Dubovi	Dubech
instrumental	Dubem	Duby

Further reading

• “Dub”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

Slovak

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Dub m pers (female equivalent Dubová)

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Dub
(pattern chlap)

	singular	plural 1	plural 2
nominative	Dub	Dubovia	Dubovci
genitive	Duba	Dubov	Dubovcov
dative	Dubovi	Dubom	Dubovcom
accusative	Duba	Dubov	Dubovcov
locative	Dubovi	Duboch	Dubovcoch
instrumental	Dubom	Dubmi	Dubovcami

Further reading

• “Dub”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026