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 Trubkin, Trub-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.
