strub
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 5
Definition of strub
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
name
- A surname.
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name
- A surname.
verb
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(UK, ambitransitive, dialectal)To rob, plunder; clear out completely; to strip.
“"[…] I mind a year ago, when I found a gladdy's nest and strubbed it, he catched me blowing the eggs to put along with others for a necklace for Jonathan French's sister, and, if he could have done it, he'd have given me a proper hiding."”
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Etymology
Origin obscure. Perhaps from Middle English strupen, a variant of strepen (“to strip, rob, plunder”), from Old English *strȳpan (attested in Old English bestrȳpan (“to strip, rob, spoil, bereave”), whence English bestrip). More at strip.
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