bob

Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to: navigation, search
See also Bob, BOB, ВОВ, and bób

Contents

English [edit]

Wikipedia has articles on:

Wikipedia

Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

Verb [edit]

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 [edit]
move vertically at surface of water
move (something) as though it were bobbing in water
Derived terms [edit]

Noun [edit]

bob (plural bobs)

  1. A bobbing motion.
  2. A bobber.
  3. A curtsy.
Translations [edit]
bobbing motion
A bobber
A curtsy

Etymology 2 [edit]

Noun [edit]

bob (plural bobs)

  1. A bob haircut.
  2. Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it
  3. The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
  4. The docked tail of a horse.
  5. A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
  6. The short runner of a sled.
Translations [edit]
A bob haircut
The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line
The docked tail of a horse
A short line ending a stanza
The short runner of a sled

Verb [edit]

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 [edit]
cut into a bob haircut

Etymology 3 [edit]

Noun [edit]

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, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XVII
      [...] 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 [...]
  2. (Australia slang) A 10-cent coin.
  3. An unspecified amount of money.
    • Spot me a few bob, Robert.
Derived terms [edit]
Usage notes [edit]
  • 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 1789.
  • The use of bob to describe a 10-cent coin is derived from the fact that it was of equal worth to a shilling during decimalisation, however since then, the term has slowly dropped out of usage and is seldom used today.

Etymology 4 [edit]

Noun [edit]

bob (plural bobs)

  1. Abbreviation of shishkabob.

Etymology 5 [edit]

blitter object

Noun [edit]

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 [edit]

Anagrams [edit]

Dutch [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From bewust onbeschonken bestuurder.

Noun [edit]

bob m (plural bobs, diminutive bobje)

  1. designated driver

French [edit]

Etymology [edit]

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

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

bob m (plural bobs)

  1. bucket hat, fishing hat

Italian [edit]

Noun [edit]

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

Wikipedia it

bob m (invariable)

  1. bobsleigh / bobsled

Related terms [edit]

Romanian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Serbo-Croatian bob.

Noun [edit]

bob n

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

Related terms [edit]

See also [edit]

Serbo-Croatian [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Proto-Slavic *bobъ.

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

bȍb m (Cyrillic spelling бо̏б)

  1. broad bean
  2. horse bean
Declension [edit]
    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 [edit]

From English bob.

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

bȍb m (Cyrillic spelling бо̏б)

  1. bobsled
Declension [edit]
    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

Welsh [edit]

Adjective [edit]

bob (soft mutation of pob)

  1. all, every, each

Mutation [edit]

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
pob bob mhob phob
Retrieved from "http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=bob&oldid=20365950"