Cub

Noun

 * 1) The young of the bear, fox, wolf, lion and some other animals.

Derived terms

 * cub reporter

Verb

 * 1) To give birth to cubs
 * 2) To hunt fox cubs

Adjectives
self-willed;  young;   modest;   helpless; clumsy; awkward; closely-watched.

Thesaurus
birdling, boy, bub, bubba, buck, bud, buddy, calf, catling, chick, chickling, chicky, colt, dogie, duckling, fawn, fellow, fledgling, foal, fryer, gosling, hobbledehoy, kid, kit, kitten, lad, laddie, lamb, lambkin, litter, manchild, master, muchacho, nest, nestling, piglet, pigling, polliwog, pullet, pup, puppy, schoolboy, shoat, sonny, sonny boy, tadpole, weaner, whelp, yeanling, young man, youth

Etymology 1
First attested 1530 as cubbe:, perhaps from (Icelandic) kobbi:, or from  cuib:.

cub


 * 1) cashed up bogan.

Noun

 * Afrikaans: welpie
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Basque: kume
 * Bulgarian: кутре
 * Croatian: mladunče
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: petit, petite ; for terms specific to any particular animal, see , , , etc
 * German: Junge, cub of a wolf or fox: Welpe
 * Hebrew: גור (gur) (young of mammals, including domesticated ones)
 * Hungarian: (for every mammal),  (bear)


 * Italian: cucciolo ; for terms specific to any particular animal, see bear cub, fox cub, etc
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: младенче
 * Maltese: ferħ, ferħa
 * Polish: młode
 * Portuguese: filhote
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: isean,  cuilean
 * Sotho: tawana
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: కూన (koona)
 * Turkish:

Anagrams

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Noun

 * 1) cube