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▪ I. drub, v.|drʌb|
Also 7 thrub.
[Appears first after 1600; all the early instances, before Hudibras, 1663, are from travellers in the Orient, and refer to the bastinado. Hence, in the absence of any other tenable suggestion, it may be conjectured to represent Arabic ḑaraba (i.e. ḍɑrɑba) to beat, to bastinado, vbl. n. ḑarb (i.e. ḍɑrb) beating, a blow, a drub.
There are difficulties. In Persia, of which Herbert wrote, the vbl. n. is pronounced zŭrb; but in Turkey it is dŭrb; in North Africa the Arabic dental is retained, and in Algiers, and Barbary generally, the verb is vulgarly pronounced ḑ'rab, ḑ'rub, or ḑĕrob. It is therefore conceivable that the form drub came originally from the Barbary states, where so many Christians suffered captivity, and was already known to Herbert as applied to the bastinado, when he went to the East. But of this we have as yet no evidence; while the absence of the word from the Mediterranean languages, into which it was quite as likely to pass as into English, is an element of doubt.]
1. trans. To beat with a stick or the like, to cudgel, flog; in early use, spec. to bastinado; to thrash, thump, belabour; also, to beat in a fight.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 47 [He] confest and was drubd right handsomely. 1663Butler Hud. i. ii. 1042 He that is valiant, and dares fight, Tho' drubb'd, can lose no honour by't. 1663Pepys Diary 21 Feb., He..would have got seamen to have drubbed them. 1691tr. Emilianne's Frauds Romish Monks 254 Those Priests who thrub'd one another in the Place of S. Mark, for to catch the Assignations to say Masses. 1698Fryer Acc. E. Ind. & P. 52. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Drub, to beat the Soles of the Feet with a Stick, a Punishment us'd in Turkey: Also simply, to cudgel or bang one soundly. 1733Fielding Quixote in Eng. ii. iv, He was most confoundedly drubb'd just now. 1835Marryat Jac. Faithf. iv, See if I won't drub you within an inch of your life. 1887Besant The World went iii, He drubbed and belaboured his servants every day.
b. Const. to drub (a person) to death, into or out of something; (a thing, a notion) into or out of a person.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 98 [The Bashaw] made the Petitioner be almost drubd to death. 1638Ibid. (ed. 2) 172 He is almost drubd (with many terrible bastinadoes on the soles of his feet) to death. 1687T. Brown Saints in Uproar Wks. 1730 I. 80 Let us drub these lobsters into better manners. 1716Lond. Gaz. No. 5460/3 He had been barbarously drubbed to Death [in Algiers]. 1728Morgan Algiers II. iv. 269. 1751 Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) II. lxi. 188 Those foolish notions..ought to be drubbed out of you. 1791Maxwell in Boswell Johnson (1831) I. 384 We had drubbed those fellows into a proper reverence for us. 1826Scott Woodst. viii, If the leaven of thy malignancy is altogether drubbed out of thee.
c. fig. To belabour with abuse.
1811Scott Let. 4 Apr., Pray drub your management for the..blunder. 1894Advance (Chicago) 1 Feb., Drubbing the church and praising outsiders.
2. transf. To strike or beat with force.
1849Thackeray in ‘Punch’ Wks. 1886 XXIV. 208 Pots were cooking, drums were drubbing. 1865G. Meredith Rhoda Fleming xliii, To go and handle butter..as Mrs. Sumpit drubbed and patted it. 1883Howells Register i, Teaching the young idea how to drub the piano.
3. To beat the ground; to stamp. (intr. and trans.)
1855Thackeray Newcomes II. 227 She drubs her little foot when his name is mentioned. 1859― Virgin. xxxiii, Drubbing with her little feet. 1860― Round. Papers, On being found out 129 You..drub on the ground with your lovely little feet.
Hence ˈdrubbing vbl. n., a beating, a thrashing; also transf., fig., and attrib.; ˈdrubber, one who drubs or beats.
1650Howell For. Trav. App. (Arb.) 85 They [the Turks] have sundry sorts of punishments that torture the sense a longer time, as drubbing, guunshing, flaying alive, impaling. 1687Congreve Old Bach. i. v, He will take a drubbing with as little Noise as a Pulpit Cushion. 1708Prior Mice 102 These two were sent (or I'm no drubber). 1752Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 266 To hear..Jupiter threaten Juno with a sound drubbing. 1769Junius Lett. xxiii. 108 note, Sir Edward Hawke had given the French a drubbing. 1784Lett. to Honoria & M. II. 36 Who had just suffered a hearty drubbing-bout. 1814Scott Wav. xxxiv, Beyond the capacity of the drubber of sheep-skin. 1871J. C. Jeaffreson Ann. Oxford I. xx. 313 The classical drubbings which pupils underwent. 1884G. Meredith Let. 31 Dec. (1970) II. 755 He got well licked [at football]. A swim in the Baths afterward braced him, for victory or another drubbing. 1955Times 24 May 11/3 The Communists, who are still licking their wounds after the drubbing they got in 1950. 1959Spectator 21 Aug. 215/1, I shall be surprised, though, if the Establishment does not take another drubbing in the City over Harrods.
▪ II. drub, n.
[f. drub v.]
A stroke given in punishment or in fighting, esp. with a cudgel; a thump; = bastinado 1.
1663Butler Hud. i. iii. 751 The blows and drubs I have received. 1678Ibid. iii. i. 1360 The drubs he had so freely dealt. 1687Lond. Gaz. No. 2237/1 A Bustangee..had, after receiving 500 Drubs, been obliged to comply with the Grand Signior's Command. 1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1721) 30 It might cost him fifty, perhaps one hundred drubs on his bare feet. 1780–86Wolcott (P. Pindar) Odes R. Academicians Wks. 1790 I. 8 Herculean Gentlemen! I dread your drubs. a1845Hood Irish Schoolm. xix, The Pedagogue, with sudden drub, Smites his scald head. |