Cubとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From earlier cubbe. Origin unknown. According to Pokorny, from Proto-Germanic *kubb-, from Proto-Indo-European *gup- (“round object, knoll”), from *gew- (“to bend, curve, convex, arch, vault”). Related terms include cup (cf. cupboard), coffin, cove, etc, essentially “chamber”, thus cub maybe initially derived from the sense “den”, or maybe “womb”.

A probable cognate is also found in North Germanic: dialectal Swedish kubbe, kybbe, köbbe, kibb, Danish kippe (“calf”). Also compare Icelandic and Old Norse kobbi (“seal”), Old Irish cuib (“whelp”). Compare also English cob.

Originally, the meaning was specifically "young fox", in which sense it has largely replaced English whelp.

別の表記

• cubbe (obsolete)

名詞

cub (plural cubs)

1. The young of certain animals, chiefly large carnivorous mammals, including the bear, wolf, fox, lion and tiger.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 32, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     a Childe of Lacedemon suffered all his belly and gutts to be torne out by a Cubbe or young Foxe, which he had stolne, and kept close under his garment, rather then he would discover his theft.

2. (humorous or derogatory) A child, especially an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy.
   • c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     O, thou dissembling cub! what wilt thou be / When time hath sowed a grizzle on thy case?

   • 1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 118:

     He had also kept with him two wild young wives and several wilder cubs.

3. (slang) A young man who seeks relationships with older women, or "cougars".
4. (obsolete) A stall for cattle.
   • 1824, Walter Savage Landor, “Conversation XIII. Peter Leopold and President Du Paty.”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume I, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 193:

     [...] I would rather have such a good mother in cub or kennel, than in my closet, or at my table.

5. Synonym of cub reporter.
   • 1978, The Journalism Quarterly, volume 55, page 652:

     Swain has interviewed 67 reporters on 16 metropolitan dailies in 10 cities — from cubs to veterans — who talk candidly […]

   • 2018, Randall S. Sumpter, Before Journalism Schools:

     […] from competing publications and the editors of publications that might buy freelance material from cubs.

6. (furry fandom, paraphilia)
   1. A furry character that is a child (i.e. under the age of adulthood).
   2. Clipping of cub porn or cub art.

      Ew, I didn't know he also drew cub...

7. (Northern Ireland, Ulster) A boy or young man.

   Coordinate term: cutty

   • 1993, Ray Givans, No Surrender, Castlecaulfield, Lapwing Publications, →ISBN, page 14:

     A man who reared ten cubs and three cutties.

   • 2016 September 12, Henry Glassie, The Stars of Ballymenone, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 229:

     The point of the example is educational, moral, and the moral qualities of the stories attracted Peter Flanagan who remembered them from childhood and told them to the cutties and cubs when he was, for them, a funny old man.

8. (gay slang) a younger (or younger-looking) "bear" type of man.

派生語

動詞

cub (third-person singular simple present cubs, present participle cubbing, simple past and past participle cubbed)

1. To give birth to cubs.
2. To hunt fox cubs.
   • 1943, Stuart Palmer, The Puzzle of the Silver Persian:

     He knew that, only a few hours from London, the Hunt was cubbing over his ancestral and much-mortgaged acres, while his own horse ate its head off in a stable.

3. (obsolete) To shut up or confine.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     to fall from heaven to hell, to be cubbed up upon a sudden

語源 2

名詞

cub (plural cubs)

1. Acronym of cashed-up bogan.

参考

• cub fos (etymologically unrelated)

参照

アナグラム

• UCB, BUC, UBC