tub English · revision 15481

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=borrowing|attested=1384}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /tʌb/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|tubbe]], probably [[bor|gml|tubbe]] or [[dum|tubbe]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986)^(NODE 1998) of uncertain origin.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) A connection with [[goh|zubar|t=vessel with two handles]] is phonetically improbable,^(Barnhart 1988) and it is considered unrelated to [[la|tubus]], the source of [[tube]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ An open wooden vessel of staves and hoops: 1384 (tobbe) in Barnhart, the late 14th century in Etymonline, about 1386 in the OED.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ A washtub is from 1560,^(Barnhart 1988) and a bathtub from 1594, especially by 1776;^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) jocularly, a bath is from 1849.^(Etymonline) ''Tale of a tub'', a cock-and-bull story, is from the 1530s.^(Etymonline) In 17th-century slang the tub was the pulpit, hence tub-preacher (1640s) and tub-thumper (1660s).^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986) A slow, clumsy ship is from before 1618,^(OED 1989) and a corpulent person from 1897.^(OED 1989) The verb, to bathe in a tub, is from 1610, in Ben Jonson's ''The Alchemist''.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1384 – tobbe.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1530s – a tale of a tub.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1594 – a bathtub.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1610 – to tub (verb).^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1660s – tub-thumper.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A wide open container, usually round, for washing, storing or packing.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A small container for food such as ice cream or margarine.^(Collins 2023)^(OED 1989)

+ # A [[bathtub]], or a bath.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(informal)'' A slow, clumsy boat.^(AHD)^(OED 1989)

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+ ===Verb===

+ # To wash or bathe in a tub; to pack in a tub.^(AHD)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[tubbable]]

+ * [[tubber]]

+ * [[tubful]]

+ * [[tublike]]

+ * [[tubman]]

+ * [[washtub]]

+ * [[bathtub]]

+ * [[tub-thump]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tubby]]

+ * [[tub-thumper]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}