bob

See also Bob, BOB, and bób

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: bŏb, IPA: /bɒb/, SAMPA: /bQb/
• Rhymes: -ɒb
• (US) enPR: bäb, IPA: /bɑb/, SAMPA: /bAb/
• Rhymes: -ɑːb

Etymology 1

Verb

bob (third-person singular simple present bobs, present participle bobbing, simple past and past participle bobbed)

1. (intransitive) To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water.

   The cork bobbed gently in the calm water.

   The ball, which we had thought lost, suddenly bobbed up out of the water.

2. (transitive) To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.

   I bobbed my head under water and saw the goldfish.

   bob one's head (= to nod)

3. To curtsy.

Translations

move vertically at surface of water

Bulgarian: подскачам (bg), клатя се (bg) Dutch: golven (nl), wiegen (nl)

Russian: качаться, выныривать

move (something) as though it were bobbing in water

Derived terms

• bobber
• bob for apples
• bob up

Noun

bob (plural bobs)

1. A bobbing motion.
2. A bobber.
3. A curtsy.

Translations

bobbing motion

Bulgarian: подскачане (bg) n.

A bobber

A curtsy

Bulgarian: реверанс (bg) m.

Etymology 2

Noun

bob (plural bobs)

1. A bob haircut.
2. The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
3. The docked tail of a horse.
4. A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
5. The short runner of a sled.

Translations

A bob haircut

Bulgarian: конска опашка

The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line

Bulgarian: топка (на махало), тежест (на отвес), опашка (на хвърчило), висулка, поплавък

The docked tail of a horse

Bulgarian: подрязана опашка (bg) f.

A short line ending a stanza

Bulgarian: припев (bg) m.

The short runner of a sled

Verb

bob (third-person singular simple present bobs, present participle bobbing, simple past and past participle bobbed)

1. (transitive) To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.

   I got my hair bobbed. How do you like it?

2. (transitive) To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop
3. Short form of bobsleigh

Translations

cut into a bob haircut

Bulgarian: подстригвам късо (bg)

Etymology 3

Noun

bob (plural bob)

1. A shilling.
   • Beer’s gone up two bob a pint.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 12, The Cyclops

     One of the bottlenosed fraternity it was went by the name of James Wought alias Saphiro alias Spark and Spiro, put an ad in the papers saying he'd give a passage to Canada for twenty bob.

   • 1960: [...] there was a sound of barking and a great hefty dog of the Hound of the Baskervilles type came galloping at me, obviously intent on mayhem, [... and] I was just commending my soul to God and thinking that this was where my new flannel trousers got about thirty bobs' worth of value bitten out of them [...] (P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XVII)
2. An unspecified amount of money.
   • Spot me a few bob, Robert.

Derived terms

• bob-a-job
• bent as a nine-bob note

Usage notes

The use of bob for shilling is dated slang in the UK and Australia, since decimalisation. In East African countries where the currency is the shilling, it is current usage, and not considered slang. OED gives first usage as 1812. TENTATIVE suggestion that on joining the army (colloquially 'taking the King's shilling') the new recruit's hair was bobbed

Etymology 4

Noun

bob (plural bobs)

1. Abbreviation of shishkabob.

Etymology 5

blitter object

Noun

bob (plural bobs)

1. (computer graphics) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
   • 1986, Eugene P Mortimore, Amiga programmer's handbook, Volumes 1-2

     The bob list determines the drawing priority...

   • 1995, "John Girvin", Blitting bobs (on Internet newsgroup comp.sys.amiga.programmer)

     IMHO, youd ^[sic] be better doing other things with the CPU and letting the blitter draw bobs, esp on a machine with fast ram.

   • 2002, "demoeffects", Demotized 0.0.1 - A collection of demo effects from the early days of the demo scene. (on Internet newsgroup fm.announce)

     Changes: This release adds 2 new effects (bobs and unlimited bobs), has a GFX directory for sharing graphics, adds utility functions to the common code...

Derived terms

• shadebob

Anagrams

• obb

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Dutch

Etymology

From bewust onbeschonken bestuurder.

Noun

bob ? (plural bobs, diminutive bobje)

1. designated driver

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French

Etymology

From the English personal name Bob, used to designate light infantrymen, and probably introduced into French during the First World War.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bɔb/

Noun

bob m. (plural bobs)

1. bucket hat, fishing hat

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Italian

Noun

Wikipedia ^it

bob m. inv.

1. bobsleigh / bobsled

Related terms

• bobbista

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Romanian

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian bob.

Noun

bob n.

1. A type of bean.
2. Any seed, pit, stone, berry.

Related terms

• boabă

See also

• sămânță
• grăunte

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *bobъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bôb/

Noun

bȍb m. (Cyrillic spelling бо̏б)

1. broad bean
2. horse bean

Declension

    declension of bob

	singular	plural
nominative	bob	bobovi
genitive	boba	bobova
dative	bobu	bobovima
accusative	bob	bobove
vocative	bobe	bobovi
locative	bobu	bobovima
instrumental	bobom	bobovima

Etymology 2

From English bob.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bôb/

Noun

bȍb m. (Cyrillic spelling бо̏б)

1. bobsled

Declension

    declension of bob

	singular	plural
nominative	bȍb	bòbovi
genitive	boba	bobova
dative	bobu	bobovima
accusative	bob	bobove
vocative	bobe	bobovi
locative	bobu	bobovima
instrumental	bobom	bobovima

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Welsh

Adjective

bob (soft mutation of pob)

1. all, every, each

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
pob	bob	mhob	phob