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English
Etymology
Origin obscure. Perhaps from Middle English strupen, a variant of strepen (“to strip, rob, plunder”), from Old English *strȳpan (attested in Old English bestrȳpan (“to strip, rob, spoil, bereave”), whence English bestrip). More at strip.
Verb
strub (third-person singular simple present strubs, present participle strubbing, simple past and past participle strubbed)
- (UK, dialect, transitive, intransitive) To rob, plunder; clear out completely; to strip.
1920, Eden Phillpotts, The Thief of Virtue, page 172:" […] I mind a year ago, when I found a gladdy's nest and strubbed it, he catched me blowing the eggs to put along with others for a necklace for Jonathan French's sister, and, if he could have done it, he'd have given me a proper hiding."
References
- Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908).
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