strubv.
/strʌb/ south-western dialect.
transitive. To rob, strip. Also absol.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > rob [verb (transitive)]
reaveeOE
benima1325
berob1340
pelfa1400
distress1490
derob1546
heave1567
shrive1630
strubc1680
spung1719
to do over1785
strong-arm1896
make1926
heist1930
to take off1937
hit1955
to knock off1960
c1680 in A. H. A. Hamilton Quarter Sessions (1878) 220 [Robert Coad was convicted of] being a night walker, and pilfering and strubbing in the night-time.
1867 W. F. Rock Jim an' Nell lxiv. 19 But they've a strubb'd vlower-knats an' heaths, And fudgeed up zum purty wreaths.
1870 Pengelly in Notes & Queries 4th Ser. VI. 72/1 [In East Cornwall thirty years ago] to strub was to strip or rob. Thus, we were said to strub a bird's nest (not the bird) when we took the eggs or young birds from it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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