shrubbing

Verb (1)

shrub (third-person singular simple present shrubs, present participle shrubbing, simple past and past participle shrubbed)

1. (obsolete) To lop; to prune.
   • The Papistes[…]though they be woll shrubbed, and shred, yet they begin euen nowe before the springe, to budde.1573, Anthony Anderson, An Exposition of the Hymne commonly called Benedictus
2. (rare) To plant a shrub in a yard, garden, etc.; to prune a bush or other plant into a shrub.

Verb (2)

shrub (third-person singular simple present shrubs, present participle shrubbing, simple past and past participle shrubbed)

1. (rare) To make or drink a shrub (liquor drink).

Verb (3)

shrub (third-person singular simple present shrubs, present participle shrubbing, simple past and past participle shrubbed)

1. (Kenya, ambitransitive, slang) To mispronounce (a word or words) in another language in a manner that is influenced by one's mother tongue.
   • The people who benefit from making fun of shrubbing, therefore, are Kenyans who do not speak indigenous languages, because they are less likely to shrub than Kenyans who learned English as a second language in school and may have a heavier accent.2010, Norma Mendoza-Denton, Dana Osborne, quoting Heidi Orcutt-Gachiri, “Two Languages, Two Identities?”, in Carmen Llamas, Dominic Watt, editors, Shrubbing and the evaluation of expertise in Kenyan...

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