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chub|tʃʌb|
Forms: 5–6 chubbe, (9 chubb), 7– chub.
[Late ME. chubbe, of unknown origin.
Prof. Skeat compares kubb block, log of a tree (which agrees in meaning with sense 3), and other similar Sw. and Da. words: but no phonetic connexion between ku- and chu- is known either in Norse or English. See other conjectures in Wedgwood and E. Müller.]
1. A river fish (Cyprinus or Leuciscus cephalus) of the Carp family (Cyprinidæ), also called the Chevin. It is a thick fat coarse-fleshed fish, of a dusky green colour on the upper parts and silvery-white beneath, frequenting deep holes, especially about the roots of trees, and in warm weather rising near the surface.
1496Bk. St. Albans, Fishing 16 The cheuen chubbe: the breme: the tenche and the ele. 1570Levins Manip. 181 A chubbe, bruscum. 1653Walton Angler 47 A Chub is the worst fish that swims. 1741Compl. Fam. Piece ii. ii. (ed. 3) 346 Chub (known by the Name of Chevin or Chavender) are a strong unactive Fish. 1868Morris Earthly Par. (1870) I. i. 313 Still the lazy chub did swim By inches 'gainst the stream. 1873G. C. Davies Mount. & Mere xi. 89 The big chub sleep away the lazy day.
b. U.S. A local name for the Black Bass (Perca huro). Also ‘a name sometimes given to the Blackfish (Tautoga americana)’. (Bartlett.)
1863Thoreau Excursions 31 The chub is a soft fish, and tastes like brown paper salted. 1883Cent. Mag. July 376/1 There are but two species of black bass..the large-mouthed bass and the small-mouthed bass..known in different sections of our country [U.S.] as bass, perch, trout, chub or salmon. 1884Ibid. Apr. 908/1 A black bass..becomes a ‘chub’ in Virginia.
†2. transf. A lazy spiritless person; a rustic, simpleton, dolt, fool; also, playfully, lad, ‘fellow’, ‘chap’. Obs.
1558Phaër æneid vii. U ij, Like fraies of countreis chubs. 1623Cockeram, Gnoffe, a churle, a foole, a chub. 1657G. Starkey Helmont's Vind. 22 Fine-fingred chubs, who will be more scrupulous of fouling their hands with coals, than careful to keep a good conscience. 1706Phillips, Chub, a Jolt-head, or clownish Fellow; a raw, inexperienced young Fellow. c1745Songs Costume (1849) 223 When a young miss has a chub by her side.
b. (Cf. chubby.)
1721–1800Bailey, Chub, a Jolt-head, a great-headed, full-cheeked Fellow.
3. (Cf. chock, chunk.) dial.
1796Marshall E. Yorksh. ed. 2 (E.D.S. 1879) Chub, a thick, clubbed piece of firewood. 1876Mid. Yorksh. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Chub, a wood-log.
4. a. attrib. Pertaining to the chub, chub-like.
1681J. Chetham Angler's Vade-mec. ii. (1689) 17 Barbel and Chub lines must be very strong. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 306/1 Of Birds..a chub Bill [is a] thick and short Bill.
b. Comb., as † chub-cheeked, † chub-faced: having chubby cheeks or face (from the general obese appearance of the fish); chub-headed (see quot.); chub-sucker, a sea-fish of the genus Labeo, also called the Horned Sucker (Bartlett).
1715Kersey, *Chub-cheeked, that has full Cheeks. 1721in Bailey.
1602Marston Antonio's Rev. iii. ii, The *chub-faced fop Shines sleek with full-crammed fat of happiness. 1712Addison Spect. No. 299 ⁋2, I have a little Chub-faced Boy as like me as he can stare.
1796Marshall E. Yorksh. ed. 2 (E.D.S. 1879) *Chub-headed, large or thick headed; spoken of cattle or sheep. |