Cub

UK: 'cub', 'Cub': /ˈkʌb/ US: /kʌb/ ,(kub)

Inflections of 'cub' (v): (⇒ conjugate)

cubs

v 3rd person singular

cubbing

v pres p

cubbed

v past

cubbed

v past p

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Cub / kʌb/ noun

1. short for Cub Scout

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cub /kʌb/   n. [countable]

1. Mammals the young of certain animals, esp. the bear, wolf, or lion.
2. a young and inexperienced person, esp. a young man.
3. cub scout.

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cub  (kub), n., v. cubbed, cub•bing. 
n. 

1. the young of certain animals, as the bear, lion, or tiger.
2. a young shark.
3. a young and inexperienced person, esp. a callow youth or young man.
4. a young person serving as an apprentice.
5. Journalism See cub reporter. 
6. See cub scout. 
7. Aeronautics, Trademarks (cap.) [Trademark.] Aeron. any small, light monoplane with a high wing, a single engine, and an enclosed cabin.

v.i. 

8. Journalism to work as a cub reporter.
9. (of a female bear, lion, tiger, etc.) to give birth to a cub or cubs.
10. Sport to hunt fox cubs.

• Scandinavian; compare Old Norse kobbi young seal, kubbr stump, hence, short, thick-set person
• perh. 1520–30

cub′bish, adj. 

cub., 

1. Weights and Measures cubic.

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cub / kʌb/ noun

1. the young of certain animals, such as the lion, bear, etc
2. a young or inexperienced person

verb (cubs, cubbing, cubbed)

1. to give birth to (cubs)

Etymology: 16th Century: perhaps from Old Norse kubbi young seal; see cob¹

ˈcubbish adjective

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Cub Scout, Cub noun

1. a member of a junior branch (for those aged 8–11 years) of the Scout Association