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A chub is a freshwater fish. It lives in rivers and lakes, especially in Europe, and it has a short, thick body — not the long thin shape of a hunter fish.
A chub查布魚 is a freshwater fish是一種淡水魚。It牠 lives in rivers and lakes生活在河流和湖泊裡，especially in Europe尤其是在歐洲，and it has a short, thick body身體短短胖胖的——not the long thin shape of a hunter fish不像掠食性魚類那種細長的體型。
People who fish with a rod know it well; it is not usually the prize on the plate, and in some places it is used as bait for bigger fish.
People who fish with a rod用釣竿釣魚的人 know it well對牠很熟悉；it is not usually the prize on the plate牠通常不是餐桌上受歡迎的漁獲，and in some places it is used as bait for bigger fish有些地方還會拿牠當餌，釣更大的魚。
The English name is old and . English later looked at that thick fish and used it as a picture of a thick person, and that is how we got . But in a nature book or a fishing story, a chub is the fish, not a comment on anybody’s body.
The English name這個英文名字 is old and homely很古老、很樸實。English later looked at that thick fish後來英文借用了這種胖胖的魚 and used it as a picture of a thick person拿來形容體型圓潤的人，and that is how we got chubbychubby（圓潤的）這個字就是這樣來的。But in a nature book or a fishing story但在自然科普書或釣魚故事裡，a chub is the fishchub 指的就是那種魚，not a comment on anybody's body不是在說誰的身材。
You will not meet this fish in Taiwan’s rivers under this English name; it is a European fish that English happened to keep a short word for.
You你 will not meet this fish in Taiwan's rivers under this English name不會在台灣的河裡用這個英文名字碰到這種魚；it is a European fish牠是一種歐洲的魚 that English happened to keep a short word for英文剛好留了一個簡短的字來叫牠。
組成From Middle English chubbe, the river fish, recorded from about 1450. It is probably related to older words for a lump or block — Old Norse kubbr / kumbr, “block, stump, log.” The thick fish later became a picture of a thick person, which is the road to chubby.
同家族的字
- chubbychubby is chub + -y, from the fish’s thick shape
- chubbinessthe noun built on chubby, so it sits on the same root
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
chubnoun詞源 1/t͡ʃʌb/
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One of various species of freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae or carp family, especially:
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One of various species of freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae or carp family, especially:
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Any of various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes.
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Any of various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes.
chubnoun詞源 2/t͡ʃʌb/
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slangA chubby, plump, or overweight person.
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slangLGBTAn overweight gay man who is part of the chubby subculture.
- It could be any dude, as long as you really want to fuck him. It could be a... a twink, a bear, an otter, a circuit queen, a chub, a pup, a gipster, a daddy chaser, a leatherman, a ladyboy, a Donald Duck. Donald Duck's a gay guy who's been kicked out of the Navy.
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slangAn erection of the penis.
- I shift in my seat trying to get comfortable refusing to believe that my dick is in full chub mode right now because of the girl whose pigtails I used to pull to try to drive her crazy when she was younger.
- The DA was a hot young woman who gave me a chub when she finally showed up in a business skirt with a slit in the side, after I had sat around waiting for her for three hours.
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A plastic or other flexible package of meat, usually ground meat or luncheon meat.
- One thing that makes recovering product harder is grocery stores' and restaurants' practice of regrinding one company's lot, or "chub," of meat with those from other companies, thus making trace-back harder.
- Chub packaging is versatile. Package sizes can range from miniature tubes up to 150-mm diameter and 1220 mm in length (6-in. diameter and 48 in. long). Virtually any pumpable paste can be filled into a chub pack
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informalExcess body fat.
- so all this chub and lack of fitness will be something I embrace in two days when I quit my new diet and exercise plan.
chubverb詞源 3/t͡ʃʌb/
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governmentpoliticsTo stop a bill from being passed using procedural delays.
- The Texas House, where, with the 140-day legislative session nearing an end, the Democratic minority "chubbed" a voter ID bill, and coincidentally more, to death.
- Did You Know? in 2009, House Democrats chubbed to death a bill to require voters to present valid ID at the polls because they feared that it would keep low-income and elderly citizens from voting.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。