shrubn.1
/ʃrʌb/, U.S. /ʃrəb/ 1. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 61 Schroysbury..hatte Schroisbury of schrobbes and fruyt þat grewe somtyme on þat hille.1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. i. 2 Y shop me into shrobbis [v.r. schrubbes] as y a shepherde were.a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. ci. 992 Myrtus is a litel tree as it were a schrobbe.1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 267/2 Schrobbe a busshe, arbrisseau.1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Djv This tree (or rather shrubbe) is deuided into many braunches.1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 595 A very thicket of shrubs upon an hill.c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 162 Rosemary, Lavander, Lentiscs & the like sweete shrubbs.1791 W. Gilpin Remarks Forest Scenery I. 98 The holly can hardly be called a tree, tho it is a large shrub.1815 W. Wordsworth Poems I. 117 The flowering shrubs that decorate our door.1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 197 The cotton shrub is cultivated in India.1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 342 Salix herbacea..The smallest British shrub.in extended use.1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie ii. 144 On thy thighs Though meagre, ugly shrubs of hair arise.
a. A woody plant smaller than a tree; spec. in Botany a perennial plant having several woody stems growing from the same root.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by habit > [noun] > shrub or bush
shrub972
bosk1297
bushc1315
treec1350
scrub1398
boce1482
shrag1552
virgult?1553
tod1563
risp1567
bush-tuft1586
frutex1664
scrub-tree1749
972 in Birch Cartul. Sax. (1893) III. 603 Of þare stan stræte andlang sorybbe [Note, ‘or scrybbe, the MS. indistinct’] þæt hit cymð to Acantune.
11.. in Birch Cartul. Sax. (1893) I. 58 Fram Winebrigth westrigte to one weie þet geþ to Winchestre þat is ihoten shrubbeshedde bitwiene þe shrubbes and Winebrigt.
b. figurative and in proverbial use.
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?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda v. iii The shrub is safe when the Cedar shaketh.
1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) iv. ii. §1. 127 These men questionlesse haue some little shrubs of pride and vanitie.
a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) I. 213 I was Shap't Only to flutter in the lower Shrubbs Of Earth~borne follies.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend (1690) 10 They who thus timely descend into themselves, cultivating the good Seeds which Nature hath set in them..become not Shrubs but Cedars in their Generation.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > bough or branch > twig
stickeOE
twigc950
yardc950
sprintlea1250
ricec1275
twistc1374
sarmenta1398
tinea1400
lancec1400
pirnc1450
shred15..
shrubc1530
shrag1552
taunt1567
ramelet1652
hag wood1804
hag1808
fibre1810
twiglet1849
virgultum1866
thorn-twig1895
twigling1907
c1530 Bible (Tyndale) Jonah Prol. B viij b It greueth thyne hert for the losse of a vile shrobbe or spraye.
1585 C. Fetherston tr. J. Calvin Comm. Actes Apostles vii. 30 The thicker the bush is, and the more store of shrubbes it hath.
a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) iii. sig. F4v The Rose although in thornie shrubs she spreads Is still the Rose.
1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. Full of shrubs, vol spruyten.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > paltry, mean, or contemptible
turdc1400
shrub1566
skybala1572
peltera1577
whipstart1581
smatchetc1582
squib1586
paltripolitan1588
scrub1589
Jack-a-Lent1596
snotty-nose1604
whipstera1616
whimling1616
whiffler1659
insignificancy1661
insect1684
insignificant1710
pic1839
squirt1844
whiffmagig1871
sniff1890
picayune1903
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person
wormc825
wretchOE
thingOE
hinderlingc1175
harlot?c1225
mixa1300
villain1303
whelpc1330
wonnera1340
bismera1400
vilec1400
beasta1425
creaturec1450
dog bolt1465
fouling?a1475
drivel1478
shit1508
marmoset1523
mammeta1529
pilgarlica1529
pode1528
slave1537
slim1548
skit-brains?1553
grasshopper1556
scavenger1563
old boss1566
rag1566
shrub1566
ketterela1572
shake-rag1571
skybala1572
mumpsimus1573
smatchetc1582
squib1586
scabship1589
vassal1589
baboon1592
Gibraltar1593
polecat1593
mushroom1594
nodc1595
cittern-head1598
nit1598
stockfish1598
cum-twang1599
dish-wash1599
pettitoe1599
mustard-token1600
viliaco1600
cargo1602
stump1602
snotty-nose1604
sprat1605
wormling1605
brock1607
dogfly?1611
shag-rag1611
shack-rag1612
thrum1612
rabbita1616
fitchock1616
unworthy1616
baseling1618
shag1620
glow-worm1624
snip1633
the son of a worm1633
grousea1637
shab1637
wormship1648
muckworm1649
whiffler1659
prig1679
rotten egg1686
prigster1688
begged fool1693
hang-dog1693
bugger1694
reptile1697
squinny1716
snool1718
ramscallion1734
footer1748
jackass1756
hallion1789
skite1790
rattlesnake1791
snot1809
mudworm1814
skunk1816
stirrah1816
spalpeen1817
nyaff1825
skin1825
weed1825
tiger1827
beggar1834
despicability1837
squirt1844
prawn1845
shake1846
white mouse1846
scurf1851
sweep1853
cockroach1856
bummer1857
medlar1859
cunt1860
shuck1862
missing link1863
schweinhund1871
creepa1876
bum1882
trashbag1886
tinhorn1887
snot-rag1888
rodent1889
whelpling1889
pie eatera1891
mess1891
schmuck1892
fucker1893
cheapskate1894
cocksucker1894
gutter-bird1896
perisher1896
skate1896
schmendrick1897
nyamps1900
ullage1901
fink1903
onion1904
punk1904
shitepoke1905
tinhorn sport1906
streeler1907
zob1911
stink1916
motherfucker1918
Oscar1918
shitass1918
shit-face1923
tripe-hound1923
gimp1924
garbage can1925
twerp1925
jughead1926
mong1926
fuck?1927
arsehole1928
dirty dog1928
gazook1928
muzzler1928
roach1929
shite1929
mook1930
lug1931
slug1931
woodchuck1931
crud1932
dip1932
bohunkus1933
lint-head1933
Nimrod1933
warb1933
fuck-piga1935
owl-hoot1934
pissant1935
poot1935
shmegegge1937
motheree1938
motorcycle1938
squiff1939
pendejo1940
snotnose1941
jerkface1942
slag1943
yuck1943
fuckface?1945
fuckhead?1945
shit-head1945
shite-hawk1948
schlub1950
asswipe1953
mother1955
weenie1956
hard-on1958
rass hole1959
schmucko1959
bitch ass1961
effer1961
lamer1961
arsewipe1962
asshole1962
butthole1962
cock1962
dipshit1963
motherfuck1964
dork1965
bumhole1967
mofo1967
tosspot1967
crudball1968
dipstick1968
douche1968
frickface1968
schlong1968
fuckwit1969
rassclaat1969
ass1970
wank1970
fecker1971
wanker1971
butt-fucker1972
slimeball1972
bloodclaat1973
fuckwad1974
mutha1974
suck1974
cocksuck1977
tosser1977
plank1981
sleazebag1981
spastic1981
dweeb1982
bumboclaat1983
dickwad1983
scuzzbag1983
sleazeball1983
butt-face1984
dickweed1984
saddie1985
butt plug1986
jerkweed1988
dick-sucker1989
microcephalic1989
wankstain1990
sadster1992
buttmunch1993
fanny1995
jackhole1996
fassyhole1997
fannybaws2000
fassy2002
1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Evjv Suche carelesse, brainlesse, senslesse shrubbs.
1656 S. Winter Serm. 93 God's..ey and his heart was towards them..though poor shrubs praying in the temple.
1683 J. Bunyan Greatness of Soul (1691) 131 The Gyants in grace, as well as the weak and shrubs.
1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 200 The poor shrub had sped so well in prayer.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
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1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 44 Fumitorie..is a bushie or shrublike Herbe.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 61 Aparrayld In shrub weeds thorny [L. consertum tegimen spinis].
c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 220 Ye squares are full of gooseberry and Shrub-trees.
1786 J. Abercrombie Gardeners Daily Assistant 317 In most of the tree and shrub kinds.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 448 Stems rather shrub-like.
a1817 T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. & N.-Y. (1821) II. 457 Currants, gooseberries, and other kinds of shrub fruit.
1841 R. Browning Pippa Passes Introd., in Bells & Pomegranates No. I 3/2 The gardens, and stone house above, And other house for shrubs..Are mine..And therefore till the shrub-house door uncloses [etc.].
1871 C. Kingsley At Last II. xi. 159 The welcome shade of low shrub-fringed cliffs.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 52 A dry land shrub-belt.
1933 A. Osborn Shrubs & Trees for Garden v. 38 Endeavour to visualize the shrub-border when its inmates are fully grown.
1978 R. E. Heath Miniature Shrubs p. vii A shrub border once planted needs very little after care.
C2. spec. applied to shrubby plants and to other natural objects resembling shrubs.
a.
shrub coral n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > order Campanulariae > member of family Sertulariidae
sea-fir1633
shrub coral1681
coralline1721
coralloid1750
sea-coralline1753
herringbone coralline1755
sea-beard1755
tree-coral1871
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iii. §1. iii. 275 The Shrub-Coral Corallium fruticosum.
shrub worm n.
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1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 55 Fruticarii..Shrub~worms.
b.
shrub-spotted adj.
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1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 857 Shrub spotted Arsmart of Virginia.
C3. † shrub mallow n. Obsolete (a) marsh mallow, Althæa; (b) the rose of Sharon, Hibiscus syriacus.† shrub-nightshade n. Obsolete woody nightshade, Solanum Dulcamara.† shrub pea n. Obsolete the shrubby pea of Barbados.
shrub cotton n. a variety of the cotton plant intermediate between the herbaceous and the arborescent.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > cotton-plant > types of
lump cotton1640
cotton shrub1752
kidney-cotton1789
nankeen cotton1797
sea-island1803
shrub cotton1858
tree cotton1884
Pima1914
1858 I. S. Homans & I. S. Homans Cycl. Commerce & Commerc. Navigation 434/1 The pod of the shrub cotton differs from that of the herb in being egg-shaped.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > marshmallow
marshmalloweOE
hollyhocka1300
wymalvea1300
white mallowa1400
vimauea1425
mallow1483
marish mallow1548
water mallow1548
mucilage mallow1578
moorish mallow1597
wymote1597
shrub mallow1640
guimauve1812
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > hibiscus or mallow trees or shrubs and allies > [noun]
mallowa1400
mallowa1425
shrubbed mallow1597
shrubby mallow1597
shrub mallow1640
mahoe1666
purau1769
Malabar rose1818
rose of Sharon1835
shuttlecock1836
hau1843
cotton tree1876
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 298 Shrub Mallow with a white or purple flower.
1707–12 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. (1721) II. 180 Althæa Fruticosa, or Shrub-Mallow.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Solanaceae (nightshade and allies) > [noun]
morela1400
nightshadea1400
petty morel?a1425
hound's-berryc1485
micklewort1531
manicon1543
garden nightshade1576
dulcamara1578
mad nightshade1578
raging nightshade1578
sleeping nightshade1578
solanum1578
tree nightshade1597
black nightshade1607
moonshade1626
mumme tree1629
winter cherry1629
blue bindweeda1637
canker berry1651
shrub-nightshade1666
poison berry1672
nightshade1733
woody nightshade1796
Sodom apple1808
African nightshade1839
solanal1846
felon-wood1861
shoo-fly plant1949
1666 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 2) 57 Shrub Night-shade.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. iv. 75/2 The Shrub Night-shade, hath a dark brown stock and branches, the flowers like the common Night-shade, in one white, in another blew.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. 231 Shrub Nightshade has a woody Stock and Branches, dark sad green Leaves.
shrub oak n. = scrub oak n. at scrub n.1 Compounds 6.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > oak and allies > [noun] > dwarf, scrub, or shrub varieties
scrub oak1671
ground-oaka1723
shrub oak1753
bear oak1810
shin-oak1844
Sadler's oak1897
1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xxx. 181 Passing through several forests of shrub oaks.
1784 J. Belknap Jrnl. 29 July in Tour to White Mts. (1876) 18 Among the brakes and wind-falls and shrub oaks on the pitch pine plain adjoining the Pond.
1868 B. J. Lossing Hudson (new ed.) 213 Making our way..through gorges filled with shrub-oaks.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > other types of pea or pea-plant
rouncival1570
garden pea1573
field pease1597
vale-grey1615
rose pea1629
hotspur1663
seven-year pea1672
rathe-ripe1677
huff-codc1680
pigeon pea1683
hog-pease1686
shrub pea1691
field pea1707
pea1707
crown pea1726
maple rouncival1731
marrowfat1731
moratto1731
pig pea1731
sickle-pea1731
hog pea1732
maple pea1732
marrow pea1733
black eye?1740
egg-pea1744
magotty bay bean1789
Prussian1804
maple grey1805
partridge pea1812
Prussian blue1822
scimitar1834
marrow1855
fill-basket1881
string-pea1891
mattar1908
vining pea1959
1691–6 Plukenet Almagestum in Wks. (1769) III. 291 Phaseolus Barbadensis fruticosus Septennii durationis. The Seven Years Pea, and The Shrub Pea.
shrub rose n. a rose, esp. a species or variety long in cultivation, allowed to follow its natural pattern of growth; cf. old rose n.2 1.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > rose and allied flowers > rose > types of rose flower or bush
summer rosea1456
French rose1538
damask rose?a1547
musk rose1559
province1562
winter rose1577
Austrian brier1590
rose of Provence1597
velvet rose1597
damasine-rose1607
Provence rose1614
blush-rose1629
maiden's blush1648
monthly rose tree1664
Provinsa1678
York and Lancaster rose1688
cinnamon rose1699
muscat rose1707
cabbage rose1727
China-rose1731
old-fashioned rose1773
moss rose1777
swamp rose1785
alba1797
Cherokee rose1804
Macartney rose1811
shepherd's rose1818
multiflora1820
prairie rose1822
Boursault1826
Banksian rose1827
maiden rose1827
moss1829
Noisette1829
seven sisters rose1830
Dundee rambler1834
Banksia rose1835
Chickasaw rose1835
Bourbon1836
climbing rose1836
green rose1837
hybrid China1837
Jaune Desprez1837
Lamarque1837
perpetual1837
pillar rose1837
rambler1837
wax rose1837
rugosa1840
China1844
Manetti1846
Banksian1847
remontant1847
gallica1848
hybrid perpetual1848
Persian Yellow1848
pole rose1848
monthly1849
tea rose1850
quarter sessions rose1851
Gloire de Dijon1854
Jacqueminot1857
Maréchal Niel1864
primrose1864
jack1867
La France1868
tea1869
Ramanas rose1876
Japanese rose1883
polyantha1883
old rose1885
American Beauty1887
hybrid tea1890
Japan rose1895
roselet1896
floribunda1898
Zéphirine Drouhin1901
Penzance briar1902
Dorothy Perkins1903
sweetheart1905
wichuraiana1907
mermaid1918
species rose1930
sweetheart rose1936
peace1944
shrub rose1948
1948 G. S. Thomas in Jrnl. Royal Hort. Soc. LXXIII. 170 (heading) Shrub roses for the modern garden.
1980 A. Wilson Setting World on Fire II. iv. 117 She runs a shrub rose nursery garden in Sussex.
shrub-shilling n. a variety of the pine-tree shilling (see pine tree shilling n. at pine tree n. Compounds 2) of Massachusetts ( Cent. Dict.).
shrub-snail n. a European snail, Helix arbustorum.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > order Pulmonifera > Inoperculata > family Helicidae > genus Helix > helix arbustorum
shrub-snail1861
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. 175 The Helix..Arbustorum, Linn., or shrub snail.
shrub trefoil n.
shrub yellowroot n. (see trefoil n., yellowroot n.).
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shrubn.2
/ʃrʌb/, U.S. /ʃrəb/ 1. A prepared drink made with the juice of orange or lemon (or other acid fruit), sugar, and rum (or other spirit).Often rum-shrub; also with other qualifying words indicating the ingredient which takes the place of the rum in drinks prepared in this way to which the name ‘shrub’ is extended.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > cordial > [noun]
cordialc1405
shrub1743
1743 E. Moxon Eng. Housewifry (new ed.) 108 To make Orange Shrub.
1747 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 468/1 A mixture of lemon juice and rum (shrub as they call it) may be carried in any quantity, as it will keep a long time.
1763 Ann. Reg. 1762 118 Three seamen dropt down with fatigue and thirst, though wine, rum, and shrub were given them alternately.
1808 Sporting Mag. 30 99 38 gallons of rum shrub.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 82 Miss Ivins's friend's young man would have the ladies go into the Crown, to taste some shrub.
1864 G. O. Trevelyan Competition Wallah vi. 164 Beer-shrub, brandy-shrub, sherry-shrub, Simkin-shrub, tea-shrub.
1888 W. Besant Fifty Years Ago xi Is there any living man who now calls for shrub?
2. U.S. A cordial or syrup made from the juice of the raspberry, with vinegar and sugar.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > cordial > [noun] > kinds of
water of milk1542
wormwood wine1565
milk water1602
wormwood water1612
mint water1639
persico1709
saffron cordial1728
peppermint water1756
pimento water1760
mint tea1764
peppermintc1770
rum shrub1788
ginger brandy1838
peppermint cordial1847
cloves1853
currant-shrub1856
shrub1861
1861 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner vii. 84 Mr. Peckham, would you be so polite as to pass me a glass of srub? Silas Peckham..took from the table a small glass cup, containing a fluid reddish in hue and subacid in taste.
1884 C. D. Warner Their Pilgrimage xi Sipping their raspberry shrub in a retired corner of the bar-room.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
shrubn.3
/ʃrʌb/, U.S. /ʃrəb/, East African English /ʃrab/ Kenyan English. colloquial.
A word in another language pronounced in a manner that is influenced by one's mother tongue. Often in plural.Chiefly used with reference to English or Swahili words that are pronounced in a manner characteristic of another Kenyan language.
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2008 Abstr. Ann. Meeting (Amer. Anthropol. Assoc.) 107 496/1 Different ethnic groups have distinct, well-known sets of shrubs.
2014 @farida_karu 28 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 20 Oct. 2021) i have a fetish for voices... i fall inlove with foreign accents. not kenyan shrubs though!!! haha!
2020 @Resolve_yadr 20 May in twitter.com (accessed 21 Nov. 2020) What tickles some Kenyans about people who don't know English or speak with mother tongue influence aka shrubs.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
shrubv.
/ʃrʌb/, U.S. /ʃrəb/ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [verb (transitive)] > groom horse
curryc1290
scrub13..
shruba1400
kembc1400
dress1510
to rub down1593
wispa1598
curry-comb1708
groom1809
strap1854
a1400 K. Alis. (Laud) 4310 Þe knaues graiþen her hors & shrubben.
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the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > scratching > [verb (intransitive)]
shrepea1250
cratch1393
shrubc1460
scratch1600
c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 300 With youre body be not shrubbynge.
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. N As how, as how, said Zadoch, shrugging and shrubbing.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > rubbing or friction > rub [verb (transitive)] > scratch
clawc1000
scrat1340
frushc1430
scrapec1440
scartc1480
scrab1481
heckle?1507
mouse1531
bescratch1555
razea1586
ferret-claw1591
scrub1596
beclaw1603
bescramble1605
rake1609
shrub1657
talon1685
1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden lvii Asses love to.. shrub their backs with its prickles [the rest-harrow].
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)] > clear land
redeeOE
ridlOE
grubc1374
stub1464
clot1483
shrub1553
clear1634
cure1719
stump1796
spade1819
slash1821
underbrush1824
to clean up1839
underbush1886
screef1913
1553 Short Catech. in J. Randolph Enchir. Theol. (1792) I. 68 The husbandemen that fyrst vse to shrubbe and roote out the thornes..oute of their ley land.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie G 573 To Grub, to shrubbe, or rid from bushes or trees.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Desfricher, to grub, shrub, rid the ground from rootes.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [verb (transitive)] > trees: prune or lop
sneda800
shredc1000
crop?c1225
purgec1384
parea1398
shear1398
shridea1425
dodc1440
polla1449
twist1483
top1509
stow1513
lop1519
bough?1523
head?1523
poll-shred1530
prune1547
prime1565
twig1570
reform1574
disbranch1575
shroud1577
snathe1609
detruncate1623
amputate1638
abnodate1656
duba1661
to strip up1664
reprune1666
pollard1670
shrub1682
log1699
switch1811
limb1835
preen1847
to cut back1871
shrig1873
brash1950
summer prune1980
1574 A. Anderson Expos. Hymne Benedictus f. 64 The Papistes,..though they be woll shrubbed, and shred, yet they begin euen nowe before the springe, to budde.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxiii. 826/1 These accusations, were rather to shrub off his faire top.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. i. 56 Shroudly shrubbing their branches, God rent them up by the roots.
1682 N. Grew Idea Philos. Hist. Plants 3 in Anat. Plants Trunks, some being more Entire, others Branched, others Shrub'd.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of striking with specific blunt weapon > strike with specific blunt weapon [verb (transitive)]
mellc1440
wapper1481
bebat1565
rib-roast1570
batonc1580
flail1582
club1593
bastonate1596
cudgel1598
rib-baste1598
shrub1599
truncheon1600
cut1607
scutch1611
macea1634
batoon1683
towel1705
quarterstaff1709
pole1728
handspike1836
blackjack1847
bludgeon1868
sandbag1887
cosh1922
sap1926
pistol-whip1930
knuckle-dust1962
1599 George a Greene sig. F2v Wert not for shame, I would shrub your shoulders well.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Shrub one, to cudgel or bang him soundly.
7. passive. To be planted with shrubs.
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1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. I. xvi. 159 A running stream whose banks were shrubbed with bushes of rose and jasmine.
1891 ‘A. Thomas’ That Affair II. ix. 144 A secluded spot, well treed and shrubbed in.
Derivatives
ˈshrubbing n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > clearing land
ridding1347
grubbingc1440
stubbing1445
stockingc1460
assart1534
clotting1601
extirpation1607
shrubbing1611
moling1617
averruncation1656
twitching1799
underbrushing1838
clearance1851
screefing1919
reslashing1934
underscrubbing1935
swidden1955
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of striking with specific blunt weapon > [noun] > fact of being struck
shrubbing1611
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Defrichage, the shrubbing, or grubbing vp of yong wood.
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. v. 92 Sancho imputes all his shrubbings to his Masters perjuries.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
shrubv.2
/ʃrʌb/, U.S. /ʃrəb/, East African English /ʃrab/ Kenyan English. colloquial.
transitive. To pronounce or write (a word or words) in another language in a manner that is influenced by one's mother tongue. Also intransitive.Chiefly used with reference to English or Swahili words pronounced in a manner characteristic of another Kenyan language.
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2006 N. Kibera Beyond Darkness viii. 179 Jacklin nudged Tony in the ribs to stop him from laughing at what kids in his class called ‘shrubbing words’.
2009 @shinskydadon 11 July in twitter.com (accessed 21 Nov. 2020) By the way you shrubbed my name on your second last tweet... Unleashing the Kuyo in you..hehe!
2020 @RobertAlai 9 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 21 Nov. 2020) I love it where @PeterNdegwa shrubbed and said ‘ferrow..’ instead of fellow. Kenyan-ness came out.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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