† trub Obs. or dial.
Also 8–9 trubbe.
[app. short for truffle, OF. truffe (Sp., Pg. trufa), or for L. tūber.]
1. A truffle.
| 1668 Wilkins Real Char. ii. iv. §3. 70 Imperfect Herbs..Without a Stem,..growing..in the ground, being esculent,..Trubs, Trufle. 1673 Ray Journ. Low C. (1738) I. 346 A kind of subterraneous musheroom, which our herbarists English Trubs, or after the French name Trufles. 1693 Robinson in Phil. Trans. XVII. 825 Ludovicus Romanus..affirms, That Thirty Camels Load of these Truffles or Trubs..have been..sold at Damascus in two or three days. 1727–41 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Truffles, Bradley calls them underground edible mushrooms, or Spanish trubbes. 1860 Mayne Expos. Lex., Trubs,..common name for the Lycoperdon tuber. 1866 Treas. Bot., Trubs, or Trubbes, truffles. |
2. ‘A little squat woman’ (Phillips 1706); also, ‘a slut, sloven; a wanton; an opprobrious term’ (Eng. Dial. Dict.). Also ˈtrubkin, ˈtrub-tail.
| 1625 Purchas Pilgrims ix. xvi. §3. 1622 The Dogges..satiate with the Womans flesh.., who was a short fat trubkin. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Trub or Trub-tail, a little squat Woman. 1746 Exmoor Scolding 104 (E.D.S.) Andra wou'd ha' had a Trub in tha. |