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Personally I think women look better with a bit of chub on them.
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Meaning of "chub" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CHUB

Of unknown origin.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CHUB

chub  [tʃʌb] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CHUB

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Chub is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CHUB MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of chub in the English dictionary

The definition of chub in the dictionary is a common European freshwater cyprinid game fish, Leuciscus cephalus, having a cylindrical dark greenish body. Other definition of chub is any of various North American fishes, esp certain whitefishes and minnows.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CHUB


Chubb
tʃʌb

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CHUB

chubasco
Chubb
Chubb lock
chubbier
chubbiest
chubbily
chubbiness
chubby
chuck
chuck in
chuck off
chuck off at
chuck out
chuck steak
chuck wagon
chuck-full
chuck-will´s-widow
chuckawalla
chucker

WORDS THAT END LIKE CHUB

bathtub
book club
club
country club
cub
dub
fan club
golf club
grub
hornyhead chub
hot tub
hub
nightclub
on the club
pub
rub
scrub
stub
sub
tub

Synonyms and antonyms of chub in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «chub» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CHUB

Find out the translation of chub to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of chub from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «chub» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

鲢鱼
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cacho
570 millions of speakers

English

chub
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चूब
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الشوب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

голавль
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

caboz
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মোটা ব্যক্তি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

chevaine
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Chub
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Döbel
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

チャブ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

처브
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Chub
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cá bóng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆற்று மீன் வகை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Chub
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tatlısu kefali
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cavedano
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kleń
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

головень
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

clean
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

chub
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kopvoorn
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

färna
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

stam
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of chub

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CHUB»

The term «chub» is quite widely used and occupies the 41.564 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CHUB» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «chub» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «chub» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about chub

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QUOTES WITH «CHUB»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word chub.
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Alison Moyet
Personally I think women look better with a bit of chub on them.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHUB»

Discover the use of chub in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to chub and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Bub and Chub
Invites the reader to guess where bear and lion cubs Bub and Chub are while they are making a hubbub as they scrub and go "Glub."
Kelli C. Foster, Gina Clegg Erickson, 1992
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Phoebe and Chub
A tree frog that lives in a creek at the bottom of a canyon and a fish that lives in a river at the end of the creek become friends and play together every day. Includes note about endangered species.
Matthew Henry Hall, 2005
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Synopsis of Biological Data on the Chub Mackerel (Scomber ...
In 1966, the species ranked fifth with a worldwide catch of 2.1 million tonnes. It is mainly caught with purse seines, sometimes using light, and also by trolling, lines, gillnets, traps, beach seines and midwater trawls.
‎2000
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Uncle Chub
This is where I ve spent most of my life, in the greatest place in the world, my heaven!
Harlan Frank Pollmann, 2012
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Endangered Wildlife and Plants of the World
This rare chub is one of four subspecies of the roundtail chub; its very close relative, the Virgin River chub (Gila robusta seminuda), is also endangered. Foreign invaders, disease, and predators have all been responsible for the decline of this ...
Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2001
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Gracie's Baby Chub Chop
Gracie and Fabio are two contented canines, until Baby Chub Chop arrives for a stay while his parents are in Timbuktu and Gracie and Fabio are blamed for his mischief. continues to win readers’ hearts from Iceland to Tasmania.
Gillian Johnson, 2004
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Fly-Fishing for Chub & Dace
This early works on Fly Fishing is a fascinating look at the subject and is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of any Angler.
Henry Bell, 2010
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Ken Schultz's Field Guide to Freshwater Fish
Creek Chub Semotilus atromaculatus In North America, the term “chub” is used to describe many unrelated fish, all of which are members of the largest fish family in the world, minnows. Although the word minnow is commonly applied to many ...
Ken Schultz, 2010
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The Intrinsic Value of Species: Why Save the Humpback Chub?
Figure 1 To illustrate, if one small group of people found an idiosyncratic trait of the chub to be a basis of its aesthetic value, but virtually no one else did, the chub being regarded as having aesthetic value by this one small group would clearly ...
Ian A. Smith, 2007
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Fishes of West Virginia
BIOLOGY. The life history of the streamline chub has not been studied extensively. Harris (1980) reported that spawning occurs from mid- May through mid-June, and that the fecundity of individuals in a Duck River population averaged 400.
Jay Stauffer, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHUB»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term chub is used in the context of the following news items.
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Field and Stream - big chub wins Catch of the Month prize
This time the Verwood aircraft engineer has scooped the prize for June's best catch with a massive 7lb 12oz chub from the River Avon. «Blackmore Vale Magazine, Jul 15»
2
My Country is
... and I am sure that we will soon return to our country," says 58-year-old Jang Chub, while sanding bamboos that he will sell to a businessman in Kathmandu as ... «Aljazeera.com, Jul 15»
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Brewers from northern Front Range fare well at U.S. Open
Oskar Blues Brewing, Longmont: Scottish ale bronze for Old Chub; imperial red ale gold for G'Knight Imperial Red Ale. • Verboten Brewing ... «Boulder Daily Camera, Jul 15»
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Recreation scoreboard
Upper division: Chub's Pub/Arriow Electric 10-0, Miller Lite 9-1, Mayport Insurance Agency 8-2, Hooligans Old Pro 4-6. Lower division: Minko ... «INFORUM, Jul 15»
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44 real-life pop-culture siblings you (probably) didn't know were …
Perhaps the lack of that Eastern European chub is why Pablo, who burst onto the scene as Nick Sobotka on the second season The Wire and ... «A.V. Club Milwaukee, Jul 15»
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Oskar Blues Enters the Coffee Game
When we visited the Lyons facility there were three coffee beers currently on tap: the Galaxy Coffee IPA, the Coffee Old Chub, and Death by ... «5280 | The Denver Magazine, Jul 15»
7
Top weight for Rimmer
On Sunday, at the Headfen Open on Trev's Lake in Little Downham, Matt Ayres (peg 55) came second with a 112lb 10oz mixed bag of chub ... «Melton Times, Jul 15»
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GSM Recognizes Deer Project Partner
At a greatly reduced rate of $1 per pound, the processors will grind the meat into two-pound chub packs ready to be picked up and put in the ... «Brownwood News, Jul 15»
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Four city fishermen bag top places
Bailiff, Stuart Wilson, said the few fishermen that did try their luck, caught a few dace and small chub but it was hard going. Once again the ... «Salisbury Journal, Jul 15»
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Pure Fishing installs energy-efficient equipment
Pure Fishing's portfolio of brands includes Abu Garcia, All Star, Berkley, Chub, Fenwick, Greys, Hardy, Hodgman, Johnson, JRC, Mitchell, Penn ... «Dickinson County News, Jul 15»

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