Old English stybb "stump of a tree," from Proto-Germanic *stubjaz (cognates: Middle Dutch stubbe, Old Norse stubbr), from PIE root *(s)teu- (1) "to push, stick, knock, beat" (see steep (adj.)). Extended 14c. to other short, thick, protruding things. Meaning "remaining part of something partially consumed" is from 1520s.
stub (v.)
mid-15c., "dig up stumps, dig up by the roots," from stub (n.). The sens of "strike (one's toe) against" something projecting from a surface is first recorded 1848. Meaning "to extinguish a cigarette" is from 1927. Related: Stubbed; stubbing.
例文
1. Signs across the entrances warn all visitors to stub out their cigarettes.
入口にある立て札は、観光客にタバコを消すように注意している。
2.He paused to stub out the butt of his cigar.
彼は立ち止まって、手に持っていた吸い殻を踏みつぶした。
3.He pulled the stub of a pencil from behind his ear.
彼は耳の後ろから小さな鉛筆の頭を取り出した。
4.I can 't write with this pencil stub .
この鉛筆の頭で字を書くことはできません。
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5.She would sit there drawing with the pencil stub .