rube

• Reub

Generic use of the name Rube.

• enPR: ro͞ob, IPA^(key): /ɹuːb/

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• Rhymes: -uːb

rube (plural rubes)

1. (US, Canada, informal) A person of rural heritage; a yokel.
   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 8, in Babbitt:

     "Same time," said Babbitt, "no sense excusing these rube burgs too easy. Fellow's own fault if he doesn't show the initiative to up and beat it to the city, like we done--did. […] "

   • 1991, Ted Tally, The Silence of the Lambs, spoken by Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins):

     You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste.

2. (derogatory) An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person.

• Brue, Bure, Rueb, Uber, buer, bure, ebru, erub, uber, uber-, über-

• IPA^(key): [ˈrubɛ]
• Rhymes: -ubɛ
• Hyphenation: ru‧be

rube

1. vocative singular of rub

rube

1. third-person singular present indicative of rubat

• rubá

• beru
• erbu
• uber

rube

1. vocative singular of rubus

rube

1. Alternative form of ruby

rube

1. Alternative form of rubben

• IPA^(key): [ˈɾu.be]

rube

1. a water jar

• IPA^(key): [ˈɾu.be]

rube

1. the plant Pouzolzia zeylanica

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh