bob

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See also: Bob, BOB, ВОВ, bób, and боб

English

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɒb
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  • Rhymes: -ɑːb

Etymology 1

From Middle English bobben (“to strike, beat, shake, jog”), of uncertain origin. Compare Scots bob (“to mark, butt dance with a bobbing motion”), Icelandic boppa (“to wave up and down”), Swedish bobba (“to bob”), Dutch dobberen ("bobbing").

Verb

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  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, or similar medium.
    The cork bobbed gently in the calm water.
    The ball, which we had thought lost, suddenly bobbed up out of the water.
    The flowers were bobbing in the wind.
  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.
  4. To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
    • (Can we date this quote by Elyot and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      He was suddenly bobbed on the face by the servants.
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

bob (plural bobs)

  1. A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
    a bob of the head
  2. A curtsy.
  3. A bobber.
    • (Can we date this quote by Lauson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Or yellow bobs turn'd up before the plough / Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enough.
  4. Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
Translations
bobber — see float
curtsey — see curtsey

Etymology 2

Noun

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.
  7. A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
  8. A working beam in a steam engine.
  9. A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
  10. A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
  11. (obsolete) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
    • (Can we date this quote by Shenstone and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      A plain brown bob he wore.
  12. (obsolete) The refrain of a song.
    • (Can we date this quote by L'Estrange and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      To bed, to bed, will be the bob of the song.
  13. (obsolete) A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.
    • (Can we date this quote?), Shakespeare, As You Like It, II, 7, lines 53-5
      He that a fool doth very wisely hit,
      Doth very foolishly, although he smart,
      Not to seem senseless of the bob.
Translations

Verb

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  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

Etymology 3

Noun

bob (plural bob)

  1. (Kenya, slang ; UK and Australia, historical, dated) A shilling.
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 12: The Cyclops]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
      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.
      1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, xxix
      ‘’Ere y’are, the best rig-out you ever ’ad. A tosheroon [half a crown] for the coat, two ’ogs for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a ’og for the cap and scarf. That’s seven 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 […]
    I could have saved myself a few bob buying it somewhere else.
  2. (Australia, dated slang) A 10-cent coin.
  3. (slang) An unspecified amount of money.
    • Spot me a few bob, Robert.
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 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.
Derived terms

Etymology 4

Noun

bob (plural bobs)

  1. Abbreviation of shishkabob.

Etymology 5

blitter object

Noun

bob (plural bobs)

  1. (computer graphics, demoscene) 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

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From bewust onbeschonken bestuurder (“deliberately unintoxicated driver”).

Noun

bob m (plural bobs, diminutive bobje n)

  1. designated driver

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bob.

Noun

bob f or m (plural bobs)

  1. bob, bobsleigh

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

bob m (plural bobs)

  1. bucket hat, fishing hat

Further reading

Hungarian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbob]
  • Hyphenation: bob

Noun

bob (plural bobok)

  1. bobsleigh
  2. a type of sled (a flat-bottomed concave plastic sled with no runners, equipped with brakes)
  3. a car used on the track of an alpine slide or bobsled rollercoaster (mountain coaster)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative bob bobok
accusative bobot bobokat
dative bobnak boboknak
instrumental bobbal bobokkal
causal-final bobért bobokért
translative bobbá bobokká
terminative bobig bobokig
essive-formal bobként bobokként
essive-modal — —
inessive bobban bobokban
superessive bobon bobokon
adessive bobnál boboknál
illative bobba bobokba
sublative bobra bobokra
allative bobhoz bobokhoz
elative bobból bobokból
delative bobról bobokról
ablative bobtól boboktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		bobé boboké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		bobéi bobokéi
Possessive forms of bob
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. bobom bobjaim
2nd person sing. bobod bobjaid
3rd person sing. bobja bobjai
1st person plural bobunk bobjaink
2nd person plural bobotok bobjaitok
3rd person plural bobjuk bobjaik

Synonyms

Derived terms

Irish

Etymology

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Noun 1

bob m (genitive singular bob, nominative plural bobanna)

  1. (hair) bob
    1. fringe (of hair over forehead)
    2. bob(tail)
      Synonym: bob eireabaill
Derived terms

Noun 2

bob m (genitive singular bob, nominative plural bobanna)

  1. stump, target (in games)
Derived terms

Declension

Declension of bob

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bob bobanna
Vocative a bhob a bhobanna
Genitive bob bobanna
Dative bob bobanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bob na bobanna
Genitive an bhob na mbobanna
Dative leis an mbob

don bhob

leis na bobanna

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bob bhob mbob
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Italian

Noun

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bob m (uncountable)

  1. bobsleigh / bobsled

Lower Sorbian

bob

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bobъ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ-. Cognate with Upper Sorbian bob, Polish bób, Czech bob, Russian боб (bob), Serbo-Croatian bȍb.

Pronunciation

Noun

bob m ?

  1. (uncountable) bean plant
  2. beanfield

Declension

Declension of bob
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative bob boba boby
Genitive boba bobowu bobow
Dative boboju boboma bobam
Accusative bob boba boby
Instrumental bobom boboma bobami
Locative bobje boboma bobach

Derived terms

  • bobowka f (“an individual bean seed”)

See also

Further reading

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “bob”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “bob”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian bȍb.

Noun

bob n (plural boabe)

  1. A type of bean, field bean, horse bean, broad bean
  2. a grain
  3. Any seed, pit, stone, berry.

See also

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bobsleigh.

Noun

bob n (plural boburi)

  1. bobsleigh

See also

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *bobъ.

Pronunciation

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

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

Spanish

Noun

bob m (plural bobs)

  1. bob, bob haircut (hairstyle)

Welsh

Adjective

bob

  1. Soft mutation of pob.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
pob bob mhob phob
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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