tubie
UK/ˈtuː.bi//ˈtu.bi/
tubie noun: a person who uses a feeding tube.
Noun
tubie (plural tubies)
- A person who uses a feeding tube.
- So many parents of "tubies," as they're affectionately known, have beaten themselves up for years trying to get their children to eat. In our case, we tried occupational therapy, feeding therapy, feeding groups with peers, speech therapy to strengthen his oral cavity, and prescription appetite...[2020 September 28, Brieanne Hilton, “Tubie Life: What it's Like to have a Kid with a Feeding Tube”, in Kansas City Mom Collective
- Feeding tubes can be used to increase a person's quality of life and many tubie's lead fulfilling and enjoyable lives. We have a reason to need a feeding tube but that doesn't mean we allow it to totally dictate and control our lives, there is no need to pity us.2024 September 19 (last accessed), Faye, “The Do's and Don'ts of Talking Tube Feeding: 5 tips when communicating with us tubies!”, in Talking Tube Feeding, Nestlé Health Science
Forms of tubie
| plural | tubies |
|---|
Origin of tubie
From tube + -ie.
Words that rhyme with tubie
Questions about tubie
- What does tubie mean?
- Tubie means a person who uses a feeding tube.
- What part of speech is tubie?
- Tubie is a noun.
- How do you pronounce tubie?
- Tubie is pronounced /ˈtuː.bi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of tubie?
- The plural of tubie is tubies.
Words near tubie in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tubie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-tubie.wav.
Cite this entry: “tubie.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tubie. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.