单词 | cub |
释义 | cub (once / 896 pages) nv A cub is a baby animal. A mother fox sometimes carries her cub by the scruff of its neck. Use the word cub when you talk about one of a number of meat-eating mammal babies, including bears, foxes, lions, and tigers. While a tiny bear cub looks as adorable and helpless as a stuffed animal, its mother is ferocious and protective of her cubs. In the old days, people also called a young, immature boy a cub — today, a human cub is more likely to be a junior Boy Scout — a Cub Scout. WORD FAMILYcub: cubbed, cubbing, cubs USAGE EXAMPLESIn the film, a young photojournalist rescues a white tiger cub ensnared by a poacher’s trap. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) Never mind that Cubs reliever Aroldis Chapman was sputtering in the late innings of Game 7 like the cyborg in “Terminator 3.” New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) A majority of Americans, including 7 in 10 Midwesterners, called November’s World Series win for the Chicago Cubs to end their 108-year drought memorable. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1n the young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion Syn|Hypo|Hyper young carnivore lion cub a young lion bear cuba young bear tiger cuba young tiger young mammal any immature mammal 2n a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) Syn|Hyper lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boy boy, male child a youthful male person 3n an awkward and inexperienced youth Syn|Hyper greenhorn, rookie beginner, initiate, novice, tiro, tyro someone new to a field or activity 4v give birth to cubs bears cub every year Hyper bear, birth, deliver, give birth, have cause to be born |
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