“Jings, that’s a richt deep dub, wi oot a doot.”
Translate:
dub: A pool, especially one of muddy or stagnant water; a pond; puddle – usually muddy; mud.
“My goodness, that is a very deep puddle without a doubt.”
![[dub spelled out in the phonetic alphabet.]](/comics/phonetics/dubph.gif){kind=small}
The Scottish Word: dub with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.
“dubs” was also the word we used as children for the [?much flooded….] communal toilets at primary school.
Definition of dubs is wrong – dubs = mud which has sparked a bit of outrage on a recent Facebook post from Heart of Scotland. Dubs could mean something else in small pockets of Scotland – but the general consensus is that dubs equals mud – ie clairtit in dubs and sharn (covered in mud and sh..)
Dubs is mud