chub
Meanings
noun
- One of various species of freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae or carp family, especially:
- A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus)
- In Europe, its close relatives, notably the fallfish.
- Any of various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes.
- In North America, a black bass.
noun
- A chubby, plump, or overweight person.
- An overweight gay man who is part of the chubby subculture.
- An erection of the penis.
- A plastic or other flexible package of meat, usually ground meat or luncheon meat.
- Excess body fat.
verb
- To stop a bill from being passed using procedural delays.
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Etymology
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.
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