English
drub
Pronunciation Noun

drub (uncountable)

  1. (dialectal, Northern England) carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.
1625, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Arabic ضَرَبَ‎ (ḍaraba, “to beat, to hit”), or perhaps originally from a dialectal word (Kent) drab, variant of drop, dryp, drib, from Middle English drepen (preterit drop, drap, drape “to strike, kill”) from Old English drepan, from Proto-Germanic *drepaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreb-. Verb

drub (drubs, present participle drubbing; past and past participle drubbed) (transitive)

  1. To beat (someone or something) with a stick.
  2. To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush.
  3. To forcefully teach something.
  4. To criticize harshly; to excoriate.
Translations
  • French: battre
  • German: prügeln
  • Russian: бить палка (bítʼ pálkoj), колоти́ть


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