cubbish

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1. Reminiscent of a cub, i.e. shy and naive.

   It is odd how much less cubbish the English boys are than the Scotch.

   1890, Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott

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   At last he opened and read the note, a clumsy, cubbish attempt to explain his language in Sanders's room, and to say the package was absolutely nothing but some violets, to apologize for any and every annoyance he might have caused Mr. and Mrs. Davies, for whom he entertained nothing but sentiments of the most profound respect and esteem, and begging if ever they met again to be regarded as most sincerely their friend, etc.

   1895, Charles King, Under Fire