a. [f. CUB sb.1 + -ISH.] Resembling a cub; awkward, uncouth, unpolished.

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1819.  Scott, Lett., 3 Oct., in Lockhart. He was shy and cubbish, and would not [come].

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1888.  Burgon, Lives 12 Gd. Men, I. iii. 338. The most awkward and cubbish … of the youths present.

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  Hence Cubbishly adv., Cubbishness.

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1828.  Blackw. Mag., XXIV. 212. One would think a gentleman might shake hands with a familiar friend without any symptoms of cubbishness.

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1883.  J. W. Sherer, At Home & in India, 85. He cubbishly returned it.

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