lob
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
First attested late 16th c. in the sense "allow or cause to dangle, hang," from sense 2.
Verb
lob (third-person singular simple present lobs, present participle lobbing, simple past and past participle lobbed)
- To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arch.
- The guard lobbed a pass just over the defender.
- The tennis player lobbed the ball, which was a costly mistake.
- (colloquial) To throw.
- 2019 April 6, Caleb Quinley, “Thailand: Anti-military party leader faces sedition charges”, in Al Jazeera[1], Doha: Al Jazeera, retrieved 2019-04-06:
- In the months leading up to the election, government representatives took up a cybercrime case against Thanathorn for criticising the government on a Facebook Live video... They also lobbed more legal cases at his party for allegedly spreading false information.
- (colloquial) To put, place
- Lob it in the pot.
- (sports) To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.
- 2011 January 15, Nabil Hassan, “Wigan 1 - 1 Fulham”, in BBC[2]:
- Wigan took the lead when Hugo Rodallega lobbed David Stockdale from close range having earlier headed against the post.
- (obsolete, transitive) To let fall heavily or lazily.
- Shakespeare
- And their poor jades / Lob down their heads.
- Shakespeare
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Noun
lob (plural lobs)
- (ball sports) A pass or stroke which arches high into the air.
- The guard launched a desperate lob over the outstretched arms of the defender.
- 2011 February 12, Nabil Hassan, “Blackburn 0 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC[3]:
- Peter Lovenkrands went close for the Magpies, hitting the bar with a fine lob after he had been played in by the excellent Jose Enrique on the left.
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Etymology 2
From an Old English word for lumpish or unwieldy things, from Proto-Germanic *lubbǭ (“that which hangs or dangles”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-, *lep- (“to peel, skin”). Compare Danish lobbes (“bumpkin, clown”), Old English loppe (“spider”) (in the sense of something that hangs or dangles). Possibly influenced or borrowed through Welsh llob (“lump”).
Noun
lob (plural lobs)
- A lump.
- 1875, M.L. Kenny, The fortunes of Maurice Cronin[4], page 126:
- And, moreover, I had no sooner set my eyes on the keys, than I remembered where there was a lob of money lying in Purcell's safe, that I —
- (obsolete) A country bumpkin; a yokel.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II Scene I:
- Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone: Our queen and all her elves come here anon.
- 1694, Peter Anthony Motteux, The Fourth Book, translation of original by Rabelais, Chapter XLVII:
- THE country lob trudged home very much concerned and thoughtful, you may swear; insomuch that his good woman, seeing him thus look moping, weened that something had been stolen from him at market […]
- A clumsy person.
- The person who comes last in a race.
- A lobworm.
Translations
Etymology 3
Danish lubbe, from Old Norse lubba, ultimately from sense 2 in the sense of "clumsy, heavily or lumpily hanging."
Noun
lob (plural lobs)
- A fish, the European pollock.
Etymology 4
Verb
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lob”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
References
- Nall, John Greaves (2006): Nall's Glossary of East Anglian Dialect
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Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek λοβός (lobós).
Noun
lob f or m (plural lobben, diminutive lobbetje n)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
lob m (plural lobs, diminutive lobje n)
Related terms
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
lob
- (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of lobben
- (deprecated template usage) imperative of lobben
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
lob m (plural lobs)
Further reading
- “lob”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Italian
Etymology
Noun
lob m (uncountable)
- lob (in ball games)
Synonyms
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English lobbe, variant of loppe.
Noun
lob
- Alternative form of loppe (“spider”)
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *lubą.
Noun
lob n
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