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† trub Obs. or dial.
Also 8–9 trubbe.
[app. short for truffle, OF. truffe (Sp., Pg. trufa), or for L. tūber.]
1. A truffle.
1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. iv. §3. 70 Imperfect Herbs..Without a Stem,..growing..in the ground, being esculent,..Trubs, Trufle. 1673Ray Journ. Low C. (1738) I. 346 A kind of subterraneous musheroom, which our herbarists English Trubs, or after the French name Trufles. 1693Robinson in Phil. Trans. XVII. 825 Ludovicus Romanus..affirms, That Thirty Camels Load of these Truffles or Trubs..have been..sold at Damascus in two or three days. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Truffles, Bradley calls them underground edible mushrooms, or Spanish trubbes. 1860Mayne Expos. Lex., Trubs,..common name for the Lycoperdon tuber. 1866Treas. Bot., Trubs, or Trubbes, truffles.
2. ‘A little squat woman’ (Phillips 1706); also, ‘a slut, sloven; a wanton; an opprobrious term’ (Eng. Dial. Dict.). Also ˈtrubkin, ˈtrub-tail.
1625Purchas Pilgrims ix. xvi. §3. 1622 The Dogges..satiate with the Womans flesh.., who was a short fat trubkin. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Trub or Trub-tail, a little squat Woman. 1746Exmoor Scolding 104 (E.D.S.) Andra wou'd ha' had a Trub in tha. |