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語源 1

From a childish mispronunciation of love.

名詞

wub (uncountable)

1. (childish or humorous) Love.
   • 2001 April 16, Jayess, “Re: I'M BaAaCk!!!”, in 3do.bad-attitude‎ (Usenet):

     Glad to see your back cuz I need some of your wub!

   • 2002 October 26, zippy, “Re: For Zippy”, in 3do.bad-attitude‎ (Usenet):

     Give Cindy my wub.

   • 2008 April 16, redcoat1982, “Re: Fuck the Church of Scientology”, in alt.religion.scientology‎ (Usenet):

     Its OK tiger, you just need some wub!

動詞

wub (third-person singular simple present wubs, present participle wubbing, simple past and past participle wubbed)

1. (childish or humorous) To love.
   • 2003, Alice Kennedy, Extraordinary Circumstances, 1st Books Library (2003), →ISBN, page 219:

     “I wub you, Mommie,” he'd say over and over.

   • 2005, Willard Scott, If I Knew It Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First, Hyperion Books, →ISBN, page 104:

     One of the first real sentences uttered by our granddaughter sitting on my knee was, "I wub you, Papa," which I interpreted to mean, "I love you, Papa."

   • 2006 June 11, Daniel Gilbert, “Does Fatherhood Make You Happy?”, in Time:

     Just as a glorious game-winning homer can erase our memory of 812 dull innings, the sublime moment when our 3-year-old looks up from the mess she is making with her mashed potatoes and says, "I wub you, Daddy," can erase eight hours of no, not yet, not now and stop asking.

関連する語

• wuv

語源 2

Onomatopoeic.

名詞

wub (plural wubs)

1. (music) wobble bass, a style of bass synthesizer heavily deployed by dubstep and drum and bass artists
   • 2012 February 2, Jimbo Ivy, “Lucky's Live!”, in The Hype Weekly, number 23, page 5:

     For the uninitiated, a wub (or wobble bass, its technical name) is that distinctive long bass note that is “torn” or “bent” rhythmically or…wubbed, and is one of the distinctive features of dubstep music.

   • 2012 February 24, Allegra Dimperio, “Grimy chills, champagne thrills on Deadmeat Tour”, in The Badger Herald, volume 43, number 93, University of Wisconsin, page 5:

     Though the audience wasn’t instantly sold on Datsik’s opening wubs, the cheer that erupted when the DJ segued into Skrillex’s remix of “Levels” further shook the already-vibrating venue.

   • 2013 April 9, Graeme Virtue, “Imagine Dragons – review”, in The Guardian:

     It's an impressive, almost overwhelming synthesis of commercial influences, including, in their monster hit Radioactive, some rather mannered dubstep wubs.

派生語

• wubby

動詞

wub (third-person singular simple present wubs, present participle wubbing, simple past and past participle wubbed)

1. To produce this sound.
   • 2012 February 2, Jimbo Ivy, “Lucky's Live!”, in The Hype Weekly, number 23, page 5:

     For the uninitiated, a wub (or wobble bass, its technical name) is that distinctive long bass note that is “torn” or “bent” rhythmically or…wubbed, and is one of the distinctive features of dubstep music.

   • 2012 May 8, Philip Sherburne, “Dubstep Selling Candy, Helping to Stop Human Trafficking”, in Spin:

     In a repeat of the "electronica" boom of the 1990s, when the music of artists like Moby, Dirty Vegas, and the Crystal Method became inescapable on prime-time TV, dubstep is steadily wubbing its way into the commercial landscape.

   • 2013 January 15, Erik van Rheenen, “Overshadowed: A$AP Rocky's featured artists outshine him on own his own album”, in The Daily Orange, Syracuse University, page 13:

     […] but enlisting Skrillex to wub all over “Wild For The Night” is a head-scratching move.

アナグラム

• wbu