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wub

/wʌb/

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Ireland/wʊb/

wub noun: love.

Noun (1)

wub (uncountable)

  1. (childish, humorous) Love.
    • Glad to see your^([sic]) back cuz I need some of your wub!2001 April 16, Jayess, “Re: I'M BaAaCk!!!”, in 3do.bad-attitude (Usenet)
    • Give Cindy my wub.2002 October 26, zippy, “Re: For Zippy”, in 3do.bad-attitude (Usenet)

Verb (1)

wub (third-person singular simple present wubs, present participle wubbing, simple past and past participle wubbed)

  1. (childish, humorous) To love.
    • “I wub you, Mommie,” he'd say over and over.2003, Alice Kennedy, Extraordinary Circumstances, 1st Books Library (2003), page 219
    • One of the first real sentences uttered by our granddaughter sitting on my knee was, "I wub you, Papa," which I interpreted to mean, "I love you, Papa."2005, Willard Scott, If I Knew It Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First, Hyperion Books, →ISBN, page 104

Noun (2)

wub (plural wubs)

  1. wobble bass, a style of bass synthesizer heavily deployed by dubstep and drum and bass artists
    • For the uninitiated, a wub (or wobble bass, its technical name) is that distinctive long bass note that is “torn” or “bent” rhythmically or…wubbed, and is one of the distinctive features of dubstep music.2012 February 2, Jimbo Ivy, “Lucky's Live!”, in The Hype Weekly, number 23, page 5
    • Though the audience wasn’t instantly sold on Datsik’s opening wubs, the cheer that erupted when the DJ segued into Skrillex’s remix of “Levels” further shook the already-vibrating venue.2012 February 24, Allegra Dimperio, “Grimy chills, champagne thrills on Deadmeat Tour”, in The Badger Herald, volume 43, number 93, University of Wisconsin, page 5

Verb (2)

wub (third-person singular simple present wubs, present participle wubbing, simple past and past participle wubbed)

  1. To produce this sound.
    • For the uninitiated, a wub (or wobble bass, its technical name) is that distinctive long bass note that is “torn” or “bent” rhythmically or…wubbed, and is one of the distinctive features of dubstep music.2012 February 2, Jimbo Ivy, “Lucky's Live!”, in The Hype Weekly, number 23, page 5
    • In a repeat of the "electronica" boom of the 1990s, when the music of artists like Moby, Dirty Vegas, and the Crystal Method became inescapable on prime-time TV, dubstep is steadily wubbing its way into the commercial landscape.2012 May 8, Philip Sherburne, “Dubstep Selling Candy, Helping to Stop Human Trafficking”, in Spin

wub meaning in Bengali

wub in Bengali

ভালোবাসা, প্রেম, স্নেহ, স্নেহ করা, ওয়ব্‌ল বেস

Examples of wub in a sentence

  • Its^([sic]) OK tiger, you just need some wub!2008 April 16, redcoat1982, “Re: Fuck the Church of Scientology”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
  • It's an impressive, almost overwhelming synthesis of commercial influences, including, in their monster hit Radioactive, some rather mannered dubstep wubs.2013 April 9, Graeme Virtue, “Imagine Dragons – review”, in The Guardian:
  • […] but enlisting Skrillex to wub all over “Wild For The Night” is a head-scratching move.2013 January 15, Erik van Rheenen, “Overshadowed: A$AP Rocky's featured artists outshine him on own his own album”, in The Daily Orange...

Forms of wub

Verb
third-person singular presentwubs
present participlewubbing
past participlewubbed
pastwubbed
Noun
pluralwubs

Origin of wub

From a childish mispronunciation of love.

Onomatopoeic.

Words formed from wub

  • wubby

Words that rhyme with wub

14 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about wub

What does wub mean?
Wub means love.
What is wub in Bengali?
Wub in Bengali is ভালোবাসা, প্রেম, স্নেহ. See Wub meaning in Bengali.
How do you use wub in a sentence?
Its^([sic]) OK tiger, you just need some wub!
What part of speech is wub?
Wub can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce wub?
Wub is pronounced /wʌb/.
What is the plural of wub?
The plural of wub is wubs.

Words near wub in the dictionary

  1. Wu-Tanger
  2. Wu-Tangers
  3. wu-ts'ai
  4. wu-wei
  5. Wuanita
  6. wub
  7. WUBA
  8. wubangziside
  9. wubbed
  10. Wubben
  11. Wubbens

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wub (page history and authors); wub (Bengali Wiktionary) (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.

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