Sekirov Dictionary

shrub

/ˈʃɹʌb/

verb 4
noun 3
forms 3
phrases 2

verb4

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(slang) To mispronounce (a word or words) in another language in a manner that is influenced by one's mother tongue.
- However, Mwandani and her brother had noted that their mother had shrubbed and pointed it out right away. — 2014
(rare) To plant a shrub in a yard, garden, etc.; to prune a bush or other plant into a shrub.
(rare) To make or drink a shrub (liquor drink).
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(no longer used) To lop; to prune.
- The Papistes[…]though they be woll shrubbed, and shred, yet they begin euen nowe before the springe, to budde. — 1573

noun3

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A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
- Tara flour is one of two products made from the seed pods of a thorny shrub native to Peru. One of those, tara gum, has been used safely for years as a thickening agent or stabilizer in human foods. — 2024
A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur.
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(slang) A word mispronounced by replacing some consonant sounds with others of a similar place of articulation as influenced by one's mother tongue.
- It is not only in face-to-face contexts that Kenyans police shrubbing; there are newspaper columns inviting readers to send in shrubs that they have witnessed, […] — 2010

forms

shrubbed · shrubbing · shrubs

Phrases with shrub

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