Rübe
91rube goldberg device — (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) n. any overly elaborate contraption, especially that employed for a very simple procedure, named after the cartoonist who drew such devices. The young inventor constructed an elaborate Rube Goldberg… …
92Rube Goldberg — Reuben Lucius Goldberg (cartoonist creator of fantastic inventions for accomplishing simple tasks hence any overcomplicated mechanism is termed a Rube Goldberg) …
93Rube Goldberg — adjective AmE a Rube Goldberg machine etc is very complicated and impractical, in an amusing way; heath robinson BrE …
94rube goldbergian — adjective see rube goldberg …
95Rube — /roohb/, n. a male given name, form of Reuben. * * * …
96Rube — noun A diminutive of the male given name Reuben …
97rube — noun /ruːb/ a) A person of rural heritage; a yokel. b) An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person …
98rube — Synonyms and related words: babe, backwoodsman, boor, boorish, bucolic, bumpkin, butterfingers, child, child of nature, churlish, clod, cloddish, clodhopper, clodhopping, clown, clownish, clumsy, countrified, country bumpkin, country born,… …
99rube — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n., slang, countryman, rustic, hick. See populace …
100Rübe — Rübef 1.Kopf.WegenderFormähnlichkeitmitderRunkelrübe.Spätestensseit1900,anfangskundenspr.,dannsoldbisheute;auchziv. 2.Penis.WegenderFormähnlichkeitmitdemWurzelstückderRübe.AuchBezeichnungfürdenSchwanzknochenbeiPferdundRind.1800ff.… …
