bob

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Verb 1.2.1.1 Translations 1.2.1.2 Derived terms 1.2.2 Noun 1.2.2.1 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.2 Verb 1.3.2.1 Translations 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Noun 1.4.1.1 Derived terms 1.4.1.2 Usage notes 1.5 Etymology 4 1.5.1 Noun 1.6 Anagrams 2 French 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Noun 3 Italian 3.1 Noun 4 Romanian 4.1 Etymology 4.2 Noun 5 Serbo-Croatian 5.1 Etymology 5.2 Noun 5.2.1 Declension 6 Welsh 6.1 Adjective 6.1.1 Mutation

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: bŏb, IPA: /bɒb/, SAMPA: /bQb/

  Rhymes: -ɒb

• (US) enPR: bäb, IPA: /bɑb/, SAMPA: /bAb/

  Rhymes: -ɑb

[edit] Etymology 1

[edit] Verb

to 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.

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• bobber
• bob for apples
• bob up

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bob (plural bobs)

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

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[edit] 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.

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to 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

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[edit] Noun

bob (plural bob)

1. A shilling.

   Beer’s gone up two bob a pint.

2. An unspecified amount of money.

   Spot me a few bob, Robert.

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• bob-a-job
• bent as a nine bob note

[edit] 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

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bob (plural bobs)

1. Abbreviation of shishkabob.

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• Alphagram: bbo
• obb

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /bɔb/

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bob m. (plural bobs)

1. bucket hat, fishing hat

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bob m. inv.

1. bobsleigh

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[edit] Romanian

[edit] Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian bob.

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bob n.

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

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[edit] Serbo-Croatian

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bobъ.

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bȍb m. (Cyrillic spelling бо̏б)

1. broad bean
2. horse bean

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[edit] Welsh

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bob (soft mutation of pob)

1. all, every, each

[edit] Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
pob	bob	mhob	phob