shrub
see also: Shrub
Pronunciation Etymology 1
Shrub
Etymology
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see also: Shrub
Pronunciation Etymology 1
From Middle English schrub, schrob, (also unassibilated as scrub), from Old English *sċrob (in placenames) and sċrybb ("a shrub; shrubbery; underbrush"); akin to Norwegian skrubbe.
Nounshrub (plural shrubs)
- A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
- (Kenya) A word mispronounced by replacing some consonant sounds with others of a similar place of articulation due to interference from one's knowledge of an indigenous Kenyan language.
- French: arbrisseau, arbuste
- German: Busch, Strauch
- Italian: arbusto
- Portuguese: arbusto, moita
- Russian: куста́рник
- Spanish: mata, arbusto
shrub (shrubs, present participle shrubbing; simple past and past participle shrubbed)
- (obsolete) To lop; to prune.
- (transitive, Kenya) To mispronounce a word by replacing some consonant sounds with others of a similar place of articulation due to interference from one's knowledge of an indigenous Kenyan language.
- (rare) To plant a shrub in a yard, garden, etc.; to prune a bush or other plant into a shrub.
- (rare) To make or drink a shrub (liquor drink).
From Arabic شِرَاب, شَرِبَ ("to drink"), akin to syrup, sherbet
shrub
- A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur.
Shrub
Etymology
A play on his surname Bush, a shrub being a smaller bush, thus indicating that he is the junior Bush in relation to his father George H. W. Bush. Popularized by American newspaper columnist Molly Ivins (1944–2007), who co-wrote Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush (2000) with Lou Dubose.
Proper noun- (US politics, derogatory) George W. Bush (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009).
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