bub
/bʌb
/noun North American informal
An aggressive or rude way of addressing a boy or man: hey, bub, I’m looking for someone...
- If you're already trained up but you could stand a little more - bub, this is for you.
- Let me tell you something, bub: she'll burn in hell along with you, so stop acting so smug!
- Time to read those two hundred and three claims more closely, bub.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from earlier bubby (perhaps a child's form of brother), or from German Bube 'boy'.
Rhymes
- transmigrator
- transmigratory
- transmissibility
- transmissible
- transmission
- transmission electron microscope
- transmission line
- transmissive
- transmissivity
- transmit
- transmittable
- transmittal
- transmittance
- transmitter
- transmogrification
- transmogrify
- transmontane
- transmundane
- transmural
- transmutability
- transmutable
- transmutation
- transmutational
- transmutationist
- transmutative