English Explanatory Dictionary

Strub

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.
verb
  1. To rob, plunder; clear out completely; to strip.

Word forms

Strub Strubs strubbing strubbed

Etymology

Origin obscure. Perhaps from Middle English strupen, a variant of strepen (“to strip, rob, plunder”), from Old English *strȳpan (attested in Old English bestrȳpan (“to strip, rob, spoil, bereave”), whence English bestrip). More at strip.

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