Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tubbie

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tub-bie
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Diminutive of tub.

Colloquial

Example Sentences

"Camera is focusing on a large puppet in a bathtub, singing. "Every day when I make my way to the tubbie I find a little fella who's cute and yella and . . .""
"Oh, yeah? So what does that say about you, Scully? I think you got caught by the show-biz bug, same as any of us! Is that champagne you're slurping on, as you lay sprawled in the tubbie? I distinctly heard a slurp..."
"BTW, you forgot your widdle wubber duckie last week when you asked me to skwub your backie in the tubbie."

Etymology

From tub + -ie.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: tub

Usage

Colloquial

Inflected Forms

tubbies (plural)

Questions

What does tubbie mean?: Diminutive of tub.
Where does tubbie come from?: From tub + -ie.

How to pronounce tubbie

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