chub
/t͡ʃʌb/
- n.
- 白鲑
中文释义来自 ECDICT
chub1词源 1
词源链
- 英语English
chub
词源说明
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”), see kobbi.
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.
释义
名词noun
- 1One of various species of freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae or carp family, especially:
- 2by extensionAny of various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes.
同族词
chub2词源 2
词源说明
Back-formation from chubby.
释义
名词noun
- 1countable, slangA chubby, plump, or overweight person.
- 2(countable, gay slang, specifically) An overweight