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单词 dub-a-dub
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dub-a-dubn.

Etymology: Echoic; compare dub v.2 2.
1. The sound made in beating a drum: used,
a. adverbial, or without construction, as a simple representation of the sound.
ΚΠ
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iv. vii. sig. G.iiij Now sainct George to borow, Drum dubbe a dubbe afore.
1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas sig. E.iiii When drums are dumb, and sound not dub a dub.
b. as n., to name the sound, or the drummer who makes it; and
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of drums
tuck of druma1500
dubc1572
dub-a-dub1582
tucking1632
drumming1663
beat1672
vellum thunder1716
rattan1764
hub a dub1777
drum1810
drum beat1817
tom-tomming1833
bum-bum1844
rataplan1846
tom-tom1863
tattooing1871
tumming1882
tan-tan1893
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil Descr. Liparen in tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis 95 Lowd dub a dub tabering with frapping rip rap of Ætna.
a1592 R. Greene Comicall Hist. Alphonsus (1599) iv. sig. G2v Hark how their drummes with dub a dub do come.
1608 J. Day Humour out of Breath sig. H2 These drumming dub adubs loues pleasure feares.
1878 R. L. Stevenson Inland Voy. 86 Each dub-a-dub goes direct to a man's heart.
c. as adj. to characterize it.
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1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. xviii. 81 The Dub-o-dub Rattling of the Drums.
2. Applied, by confusion, to the accolade given in conferring knighthood.
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1612 N. Field Woman a Weather-cocke i. sig. Cv The Dubadub of Honor, piping hot, Doth lye vpon my Worships shoulder blade.

Derivatives

dub-a-dub v. = dub v.2 2.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > beating drum > beat drum [verb (intransitive)]
tabor1377
taborna1400
nakerc1425
drum1597
dub-a-dub1598
to beat a drum1621
rub-a-dub1837
beat1841
to beat a tattoo1841
tom-tom1860
rataplan1863
tambourin1884
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Tambussare..to dub a dub, to drum.
1851 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 573 Trumpets and drums, blown and dub-a dubbed by fellows that..I would not trust [etc.].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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