tuob

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tu‧ob

Adjective

tuob

1. enclosed; closed in; contained
2. obstructed; shut off to passage

Noun

tuob

1. an unopened palm frond

Verb

tuob

1. to make oneself sweat by wrapping one's body in a blanket while on all fours above a pot of steaming boiled mixture of burnt rice, Coke, ice and mango leaves, often to cure oneself of pasmo or kabuhi

Anagrams

• buot, buto, tubo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twob/

Noun

tuob

1. gold

References

• Julian Granberry, Gary Vescelius, Languages of the Pre-Columbian Antilles (2004, →ISBN, page 27 (reconstructing the pronunciation as monosyllabic based on the source [Spanish] text's marking of stress in disyllabic words and absence of marking here, and on the regular use of u after t for /w/ in Spanish texts of the period)

Adjective

tuob

1. airtight