dub

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  • From a Late Old English (11th century) word dubban perhaps borrowed from Old French aduber, adober (also 11th century, Modern French adouber), from Frankish *dubbjan, from Proto-Germanic *dubjaną ("to fit"), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- ("plug, peg, wedge").
  • Cognate with Icelandic dubba (dubba til riddara). Compare also drub for an English reflex of the Germanic word.
  • 1505-1515
  • 1885-90; Imitative, see also flub, flubdub
  • From a shortening of the word double.
  • From Celtic; compare Irish dobhar, Welsh dŵr.
  • From shortening of double dime.
  • From dup, from do + up, from Middle English ("to open").

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