drub
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 4
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Definition of drub
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (Northern-England, dialectal, uncountable, usually)Carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.
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noun
- (Northern-England, dialectal, uncountable, usually)Carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.
verb
- (transitive)To beat (someone or something) with a stick.
- (transitive)To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush.
- (transitive)To forcefully teach something.
- (transitive)To criticize harshly; to excoriate.
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Etymology
From Middle English *drob, drof, from Old English *drōb, drōf (“turbid; dreggy; dirty”), from Proto-West Germanic *drōbī, from Proto-Germanic *drōbuz (“turbid”).
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