skub

Nonce word from a Perry Bible Fellowship comic by Nicholas Gurewitch, in which two characters (with "Pro Skub" and "Anti Skub" t-shirts) shown brawling over "skub" are juxtaposed with a picture of the "skub", a small tub of cream-like substance.^[1] The term was adopted by the users of the imageboard 4chan to mock users who would incessantly argue over inconsequential things. Compare weeaboo, from the same comic series.

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skub (uncountable)

1. (humorous, Internet slang) An unspecified but insignificant fictional substance, which is perpetually the subject of hostile discussion.
   • 2006 August 4, Varran, Kingdom of Loathing forums‎^[1], archived from the original on 19 April 2020:

     Skub is skub. And I'm willing to beat you up over it.

   • 2008 July 6, James7, Neowin forum‎^[2], archived from the original on 19 April 2020:

     I don't know what Skub is but I am against it

   • 2012 August 8, anonymous author, 4chan‎^[3], archived from the original on 9 March 2020, No.1972, /q/:

     This. I mean, someone will hate skub, someone will love skub, but everyone will be getting skub.

   • 2016 September 12, anonymous author, 4chan‎^[4], archived from the original on 9 March 2020, No.2215037, /an/:

     Fuck you, skub has done more for society than you or anyone else who hates skub ever will

   • 2019 December 30, Chris Wage (@cwage), Twitter‎^[5], archived from the original on 9 March 2020:

     i don't know what WWIII will be fought with, but i know it will be over skub

• pro-skub
• anti-skub

• Buks, Busk, busk

From Proto-Brythonic *ɨskʉb, from Latin scōpa. Doublet of skiber (“barn”). Cognate with Welsh ysgub.

skub m (plural skubyon)

1. sweeping

skub (singular definite skubbet, plural indefinite skub)

1. push

skub

1. imperative of skubbe

• IPA^(key): /ˈskup/
• Rhymes: -up
• Syllabification: skub
• Homophone: skup

skub

1. second-person singular imperative of skubać