English

rubout

Deverbal from rub out.

A compound of rub + out

Middle English rubben ‘to abrade’

English rub

Proto-Indo-European *úd ‘upwards, away’

Proto-Germanic *ūt ‘out’

Proto-West Germanic *ūt ‘out’

Old English ūt ‘out’

Middle English out

English out

Today it means

noun An instance of erasing with a rubber.

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