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bob

See also: Bob, BOB, bób, and böb

Translingual

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bob

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Aweer.

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English

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Etymology 1

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

Verb

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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, 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 underwater and saw the goldfish.
    bob one’s head (= to nod)
    1. (with on) To perform oral sex on someone.
      She bobbed on his member.
  3. To curtsy.
  4. To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
  5. (intransitive) Synonym of blob (“catch eels using worms strung on thread”)
    • 1876, George Christopher Davies, The Swan and Her Crew, page 134:
      After they had had supper Frank said, Do you remember those men whom we saw near Norwich, who sat in small boats all the night long, and with a line in each hand, bobbed for eels?
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Noun

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bob (plural bobs)

  1. A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
    a bob of the head
  2. A curtsy.
  3. A bobber (buoyant fishing device).
  4. Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English bobbe (“a cluster (of fruit); a twig with its leaves, a spray”).

Noun

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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 bobsleigh.
  8. A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
  9. A working beam in a steam engine.
  10. A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
  11. A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
  12. (obsolete) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
  13. (obsolete) The refrain of a song.
  14. (obsolete) A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.
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Verb

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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. To bobsleigh.
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Etymology 3

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Noun

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bob (plural bob or (rare) bobs)

  1. (Kenya, slang; UK and Australia, historical, dated) A shilling.
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 308:
      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 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXIX, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC, pages 214–215:
      “’Ere y’are, the best rig-out you ever ’ad. A tosheroon [half a crown][sic] 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[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
      […] 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, dated slang) A 10-cent coin.
  3. (slang) An unspecified amount of money.
    Spot me a few bob, Robert.
    I could have saved myself a few bob buying it somewhere else.
    • 1949 March 23, “Capital Planning For Cherry Blossom Festival On April 3”, in Warren Times-Mirror, volume forty-nine, Warren, Pa., page twelve, column 1:
      A great many visitors are expected. They will take pictures of each other under the cherry blossoms and—the Chamber of Commerce hopes—spend a few bobs for hot logs, gasoline, eastern finery and souvenirs of the nation’s capital.
    • 1964, Len Deighton, “Tuesday, November 5th”, in Funeral in Berlin, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, published 1965, →LCCN, page 294:
      It was a Molotov cocktail to dispose of my mortal remains. / “Cor, what a beauty.” / “Hello, somebody’s thrown a match into a box of fireworks; easy to do.” / “A few bobs’ worth of whizzers gone up there, Mabel.”
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  • 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.
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Etymology 4

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Noun

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bob (plural bobs)

  1. Abbreviation of shishkabob.

Etymology 5

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blitter object

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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”, in comp.sys.amiga.programmer (Usenet):
      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.”, in fm.announce (Usenet):
      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
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Dutch

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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bob m (plural bobs, diminutive bobje n)

  1. designated driver

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English bob.

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bob f or m (plural bobs)

  1. (winter sports) bob, bobsleigh
    Synonym: bobslee

French

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Etymology 1

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

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bob m (plural bobs)

  1. bucket hat, fishing hat

Etymology 2

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

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bob m (plural bobs)

  1. (Belgium) designated driver, DD

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈbob]
  • Hyphenation: bob
  • Rhymes: -ob

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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

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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

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  • bob in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Irish

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Etymology

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bob m (genitive singular bob, nominative plural bobanna)

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

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Noun

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bob m (genitive singular bob, nominative plural bobanna)

  1. stump, target (in games)

Declension

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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

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of bob
radical lenition eclipsis
bob bhob mbob

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Italian

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Etymology

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Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping of English bobsled.

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Noun

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bob m (invariable)

  1. bobsleigh / bobsled
    Synonym: (rare) guidoslitta
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Lower Sorbian

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bob

Etymology

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

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Noun

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bob m inan

  1. (uncountable) bean plant
  2. beanfield

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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

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  • bobowka f (“an individual bean seed”)

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  • 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

Portuguese

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Noun

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bob m (plural bobes)

  1. curler (small cylindrical tube)
  2. hair roller, hair curler

Romanian

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian bȍb.

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bob n (plural boabe)

  1. a type of bean, field bean, horse bean, broad bean
  2. a grain
  3. any seed, pit, stone, berry
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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative bob bobul boabe boabele
genitive-dative bob bobului boabe boabelor
vocative bobule boabelor
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English bobsleigh.

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bob n (plural boburi)

  1. bobsleigh
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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative bob bobul boburi boburile
genitive-dative bob bobului boburi boburilor
vocative bobule boburilor

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English bobbe (“cluster of fruit; spray of leaves”).[1]

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bob (plural bobs)

  1. a bunch, a cluster (of things)
  2. (obsolete) a nosegay, bunch of flowers
  3. a knot; a bunch of ribbon
  4. a patch of rich grass

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bob (third-person singular simple present bobs, present participle bobbin, simple past bobbit, past participle bobbit)

  1. (of grass) to grow richly in patches

Etymology 2

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Uncertain. Possibly onomatopoeic expressing quick movement,[2] but compare English bob, above.[3]

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bob (plural bobs)

  1. a dance

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bob (third-person singular simple present bobs, present participle bobbin, simple past bobbit, past participle bobbit)

  1. to dance with up-and-down movement
    Synonym: bab

Etymology 3

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Unknown. Possibly from Middle English bobben (“to strike”) or Old French bober, baubir (“to mock, deride”).[4]

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bob (plural bobs)

  1. a target, a mark to aim at
  2. a taunt

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  1. ^ “bob, n.1”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
  2. ^ “bob, n.2”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
  3. ^ “bab, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
  4. ^ “bob, n.3”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bobъ.

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bȍb m (Cyrillic spelling бо̏б)

  1. broad bean
  2. horse bean
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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

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From English bob.

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bȍb m (Cyrillic spelling бо̏б)

  1. bobsled
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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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bob m

  1. bobsleigh / bobsled

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbob/ [ˈboβ̞]
  • Rhymes: -ob
  • Syllabification: bob

Noun

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bob m (plural bobs)

  1. bob, bob haircut (hairstyle)

Welsh

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Adjective

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bob

  1. Soft mutation of pob.

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Mutated forms of pob
radical soft nasal aspirate
pob bob mhob phob

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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