Meaning

8 senses
  1. The young of certain animals, chiefly large carnivorous mammals, including the bear, wolf, fox, lion and tiger.

    Fuchswelpe, Fuchsjunges, Fuchsbaby

    лисёнокlisjónok, детёнышdetjónyš, медвежо́нокmedvežónok

    the young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion

  2. (derogatory, humorous)A child, especially an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy.

    a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)

  3. (slang)A young man who seeks relationships with older women, or "cougars".

  4. Synonym of cub reporter.

  5. (slang)A furry character that is a child (i.e. under the age of adulthood).

  6. (Northern Ireland, Ulster)A boy or young man.

  7. (slang)A younger (or younger-looking) "bear" type of man.

  8. (obsolete)A stall for cattle.

Examples

56 sentences
  1. The tiger cub looked like a large kitten.

    Тигреня виглядало як велике кошеня. — marko

    ruТигрёнок был похож на большого котёнка. — Balamax

    deDas Tigerjunge sah wie ein großes Kätzchen aus. — cost

  2. These bear cubs are still nursing.

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  3. These little cubs are so cute.

  4. Ziri played with the lion cub.

  5. The vixen is feeding her cubs.

    ruЛисица кормит лисят. — Wezel

    deDie Füchsin füttert ihre Welpen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
young fox:
the young of certain animals:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
young fox:
the young of certain animals:

Origin

From earlier cubbe. Origin unknown. According to Pokorny, from Proto-Germanic *kubb-, from

From earlier cubbe. Origin unknown. According to Pokorny, from Proto-Germanic *kubb-, from Proto-Indo-European *gup- (“round object, knoll”), from *gew- (“to bend, curve, convex, arch, vault”). Related terms include cup (cf. cupboard), coffin, cove, etc, essentially “chamber”, thus cub maybe initially derived from the sense “den”, or maybe “womb”.

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Forms

plural: cubs
Singularcub
Pluralcubs

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

12 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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