Dub

Clipping of Dubliner

• IPA^(key): /dʌb/
• Rhymes: -ʌb

Dub (plural Dubs)

1. (Ireland, colloquial) A Dubliner.
   • 1993, Mary P. Corcoran, Irish Illegals: Transients Between Two Societies, page 138:

     There is a distinction between Dubliners on the one hand and "rednecks" on the other. […] The Dubs historically went to Liverpool and Birmingham, so they don't have the connections.

   • 1994, Patrick O'Dea, A Class of Our Own: Conversations About Class in Ireland, page 51:

     I did the Pat Kenny show one night and talked about coming from the bottom up, and I got numerous letters, saying to hear somebody with a Dub accent running the brewery was unbelievable.

   • 2018, Sally Rooney, “Three Months Later (March 2014)”, in Normal People:

     Eric released her, grinning. You're a Dub anyway, he said.

Dub

1. (after a qualification) Abbreviation of University of Dublin, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.^[1]

• U of Dub

• BDU, BUD, Bud, DBU, bud

From dub (“oak”). First attested in 1367.

• IPA^(key): [ˈdup]
• Homophones: dup, dub

Dub m anim (female equivalent Dubová)

1. a male surname

• “Dub”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

• IPA^(key): [dup]

Dub m pers (female equivalent Dubová)

1. a male surname

• “Dub”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025