drub
Carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coalCarbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.
» We gave the enemy a drubbing.
Мы задали противнику трёпку. — shanghainese
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1 senses(Northern England, dialectal, uncountable, usually)Carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.
Examples
2 sentencesWe gave the enemy a drubbing.
ruМы задали противнику трёпку. — shanghainese
After its drubbing at the polls, the party has to reinvent itself.
deNach der Wahlniederlage muss sich die Partei neu erfinden. — raggione
Origin
From Middle English *drob, drof, from Old English *drōb, drōf (“turbid; dreggy; dirty”), fFrom Middle English *drob, drof, from Old English *drōb, drōf (“turbid; dreggy; dirty”), from Proto-West Germanic *drōbī, from Proto-Germanic *drōbuz (“turbid”).
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Forms
plural: drubs| Singular | drub |
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uncountable
Word family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.