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.
雙語例句
1. Signs across the entrances warn all visitors to stub out their cigarettes.
入口處的告示牌提醒游客們熄滅香煙。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He paused to stub out the butt of his cigar.
他停下來，踩滅了手中的煙頭。
來自柯林斯例句
3. He pulled the stub of a pencil from behind his ear.
他從耳后拿出一小段鉛筆頭。
來自柯林斯例句
4. I can't write with this pencil stub.
我無法用這根鉛筆頭寫字.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. She would sit there drawing with the pencil stub.