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chub¹

  • /t͡ʃʌb/ US, UK
  • /t͡ʃʌb/ Australia
  • /t͡ʃʊb/ Ireland, Northern England

Rhymes with -ʌb

Where it comes from

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.

noun chubs · chub

  1. A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus)
  2. In Europe, its close relatives, notably the fallfish.
  3. broadly Any of various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes.
  4. broadly In North America, a black bass.

chub²

  • /t͡ʃʌb/ US, UK
  • /t͡ʃʌb/ Australia
  • /t͡ʃʊb/ Ireland, Northern England

Rhymes with -ʌb

Where it comes from

Back-formation from chubby.

noun chubs

  1. countable, slang A chubby, plump, or overweight person.
  2. countable, slang, specifically An overweight gay man who is part of the chubby subculture. It could be any dude, as long as you really want to fuck him. It could be a... a twink, a bear, an otter, a circuit queen, a chub, a pup, a gipster, a daddy chaser, a leatherman, a ladyboy, a Donald Duck. Donald Duck's a gay guy who's been kicked out of the Navy.
  3. countable, slang An erection of the penis. I shift in my seat trying to get comfortable refusing to believe that my dick is in full chub mode right now because of the girl whose pigtails I used to pull to try to drive her crazy when she was younger.
  4. countable A plastic or other flexible package of meat, usually ground meat or luncheon meat. One thing that makes recovering product harder is grocery stores' and restaurants' practice of regrinding one company's lot, or "chub," of meat with those from other companies, thus making trace-back harder.
  5. informal, uncountable Excess body fat. so all this chub and lack of fitness will be something I embrace in two days when I quit my new diet and exercise plan.

chub³

  • /t͡ʃʌb/ US, UK
  • /t͡ʃʌb/ Australia
  • /t͡ʃʊb/ Ireland, Northern England

Rhymes with -ʌb

verb chubs · chubbing · chubbed

  1. Texas, US To stop a bill from being passed using procedural delays. The Texas House, where, with the 140-day legislative session nearing an end, the Democratic minority "chubbed" a voter ID bill, and coincidentally more, to death.

chub⁴

  • /t͡ʃʌb/ US, UK
  • /t͡ʃʌb/ Australia
  • /t͡ʃʊb/ Ireland, Northern England

Rhymes with -ʌb

Where it comes from

From Ukrainian чуб (čub, “crest”), from Proto-Slavic *čubъ.

noun chubs

  1. Synonym of oseledets, a traditional Ukrainian hairstyle.

    Similar: oseledets

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@misc{chub_2026,
  title = {chub},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/chub},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}