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cubbish

adj

Etymology

From cub + -ish.

  1. derived from *gup-✻ — “round object, knoll”
  2. inherited from *kubb-✻
  3. suffixed as cubbish — “cub + ish”

Definitions

  1. Reminiscent of a cub, i.e. shy and naive.

    • It is odd how much less cubbish the English boys are than the Scotch.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cubbish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA