Also 7 bubb. [? imitation of the sound of drinking; cf. BIB v.]

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  1.  A slang word for drink, esp. strong beer.

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1671–2.  Westm. Drollery, in Roxb. Ballads (1883), IV. 440. They … took away … their Wallets … Which brought their good Bubb.

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1718.  Prior, Poems, 193. He loves cheap Port, and double Bub.

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1812.  J. H. Vaux, Flash Dict., Bub, a low expression signifying drink.

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c. 1840.  Marryat, R. Reefer, lxv. Our bub and our grub.

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1841.  Orderson, Creol., iii. 28. The gentlemen enjoyed their bub and roasted corn.

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  2.  A mixture of meal and yeast with warm wort and water, used to promote fermentation.

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1880.  Act 43 & 44 Vic., xxiv. § 33. Bub or any other composition for promoting the fermentation of wort.

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