rubbityn.
/ˈrʌbᵻti/, U.S. /ˈrəbədi/, Australian English /ˈrʌbəti/, /ˈrʌbədi/, New Zealand English /ˈrʌbədi/ Australian and New Zealand.
A public house.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house
houseOE
tavern1297
tavern-housea1400
sunc1400
tap-house1500
tippling-housea1549
innsc1550
bousing-inn1575
ivy-bush1576
osteria1580
ordinary1590
caback1591
taberna1593
bousing-house1594
pothouse1598
red lattice1604
cupping-house1615
public house1617
busha1625
Wirtshaus1650
bibbery1653
cabaret1656
gaming ordinary1667
public1685
shop1695
bibbing-housea1704
dram-shop1725
gill house1728
rum shop1738
buvette1753
dram-house1753
grog-shop1790
wine-vault1791
pub1800
pulperia1818
pulqueria1822
potation-shop1823
rum hole1825
Wirtschaft1834
drunkery1836
pot shop1837
drinkery1840
rum mill1844
khazi1846
beer-shop1848
boozer1895
rub-a-dub1898
Weinstube1899
rubbity-dub1905
peg house1922
rub-a-dub-dub1932
rubbity1941
Stube1946
superpub1964
1941 Active Service 127 Passing a rubberdy—a pub—an hotel, Sir, in which there was a band playing, I ran into the arms of a colonel.
1944 Action Front: Jrnl 2/2 Field Regiment May 15 Overheard in a Melbourne rupperty.
1957 D. Niland Call me when Cross turns Over iv. 101 How about a gargle? Down to the rubberdy, come on.
1962 ‘D. Forrest’ Hollow Woodheap i. 11 ‘Where..is “The Eagle on the Hill”?’ ‘A rubbedy in South Australia.’
1978 N. Hilliard Glory & Dream 166 ‘Anybody seen Charlie?’ ‘In the rubbity this arfto. He's probably flakers.’
2002 Sunday Times (Perth, Austral.) (Nexis) 10 Nov. Grab a pint from the local rubbity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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