dubbing

¹

[duhb-ing]

noun

1. the conferring of knighthood; accolade.

2. Angling.,  the material used for the body of an artificial fly.

3. dubbin.

dubbing

²

[duhb-ing]

noun

1. the act or process of furnishing a film or tape with a new sound track or adding music, sound effects, etc., to an existing one.

dubbing

¹

/ ˈdʌbɪŋ /

noun

1. the replacement of a soundtrack in one language by one in another language

2. the combination of several soundtracks into a single track

3. the addition of a soundtrack to a film or broadcast

dubbing

²

/ ˈdʌbɪŋ /

noun

1. angling hair or fur spun on waxed silk and added to the body of an artificial fly to give it shape

2. a variant of dubbin

Word History and Origins

Origin of dubbing¹

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English; dub ¹ + -ing ¹

Origin of dubbing²

First recorded in 1925–30; dub ⁴ + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

Last year, Musk urged his more than 200 million followers on X to stop donating to Wikipedia, dubbing the site "Wokepedia."

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Leo said the role of women in the fight against hunger, often overlooked, was in fact "indispensable", dubbing them "the silent architects of survival".

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Her tendency to brush through political controversies gave her an air of untouchability, with some dubbing her "Teflon Ang".

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Commemorative cans for her “365 Days of Girlhood” series set off a firestorm: conservative boycotts, Kid Rock blasting cases of beer with a rifle, pundits dubbing it the “groomer of beers.”

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Environmental groups were outraged by the announcement — dubbing the email offer as an “inbox from hell.”

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Related Words

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