“Jings, that’s a richt deep dub, wi oot a doot.”
Translated:
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.
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