Meaning of glubo | Babel Free
[ˈɡɫuː.boː]Definitions
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to strip the bark from a tree, to peel, to shuck conjugation-3, literally, uncommon
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to peel back the foreskin of, to masturbate conjugation-3, uncommon, vulgar
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Examples
“Salictum suo tempore caedito, glubito, arteque alligato.”
Cut down any willow at its due time, strip its bark, and bind the bark well.
“Filia mihi haec poma glupsit.”
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“Nunc in quadriviis et angiportis”
Now in the crossroads and alleyways she masturbates the grandsons of brave Remus.
“Quid de Lesbia dicam, quae, quamvis Catulli chartis immortalis facta, in angiportis glupsit magnanimos Remi nepotes (cf. Cat. LVIII.), quid de Lycoride, Galli amica (Prop. El. II, 34, 91.), cuius verum nomen Cytheridem fuisse Servius docet (ad Virg. Bucc. X, 1.), Volumnii Eutrapeli liberta (de qua cf. Cic. Phil. II, 24. ad Attic. X, 10. 16. ad Div. IX, 26. Plut. vit. Ant. c. 9. Plin. Nat. Hist. VIII, 16.), mima simul et meretrice?”
What shall I say of Lesbia, who, ever so much made immortal by Catullus's writings, peeled/masturbated in the alleys the brave grandsons of Remus (cf. Cat. LVIII.), what of Lycoris, mistress of Gallus (Prop. El. II, 34, 91.), whose true name, Servius teaches, was Cytheris (ad Virg. Bucc. X, 1.), a freedwoman of Volumnius Eutrapelus (on which cf. Cic. Phil. II, 24. ad Attic. X, 10. 16. ad Div. IX, 26. Plut. vit. Ant. c. 9. Plin. Nat. Hist. VIII, 16.), a mime actress and at the same time a prostitute?
CEFR level
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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