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Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bŏb, IPA(key): /bɒb/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒb
- (US) enPR: bäb, IPA(key): /bɑb/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːb
Etymology 1
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
bob (third-person singular simple present bobs, present participle bobbing, simple past and past participle bobbed)
- (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.
- (transitive) To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
- I bobbed my head underwater and saw the goldfish.
- bob one’s head
- (with on) To perform oral sex on someone.
- She bobbed on his member.
- To curtsy.
- To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, “In what wise musike may be to a noble man necessarie: and what modestie ought to be therin”, in Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC, 1st book, page 26:
- And if any man hapned, by longe sittynge, to slepe, or, by any other countenance, to shewe him selfe to be weary, he was sodaynly bobbed on the face by the seruantes of Nero, […]
- c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], signature [C4], recto:
- Lo, lo, lo, lo, what modicums of wit he vtters, his euaſions haue eares thus long, I haue bobd his braine more then he has beate my bones.
- (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?
Derived terms
Translations
move vertically at surface of water
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move (something) as though it were bobbing in water
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Noun
bob (plural bobs)
- A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
- a bob of the head
- A curtsy.
- A bobber (buoyant fishing device).
- 1613, John Dennys, The Secrets of Angling:
- Or yellow bobs turn’d up before the plough / Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enough.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
Derived terms
Translations
bobbing motion
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bobber — see float
curtsey — see curtsey
Etymology 2
From Middle English bobbe (“a cluster (of fruit); a twig with its leaves, a spray”).
Noun
bob (plural bobs)
- A bob haircut.
- Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it.
- 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer:
- Ecod! I have got them. Here they are. My cousin Con's necklaces, bobs and all.
- The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
- The docked tail of a horse.
- A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
- The short runner of a sled.
- A bobsleigh.
- A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
- A working beam in a steam engine.
- A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
- A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
- (obsolete) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
- 1737, William Shenstone, The Extent of Cookery:
- A plain brown bob he wore.
- (obsolete) The refrain of a song.
- 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Abstemius, &c.] Fab[le] CCLXXXIII. A Widow had a mind to Marry.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 248:
- Ay, Ay, and Then to Bed, ſays the Bride. This Girl did but ſpeak the Widows Mind; for let Fleſh and Blood pretend what it will, to Bed, to Bed, will be the Bob of the Song.
- (obsolete) A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.
- c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii], page 203, column 1, lines 53–55:
- Hee, that a Foole doth very wiſely hit,
Doth very fooliſhly, although he ſmart,
Seeme ſenſeleſſe of the bob.
Derived terms
Translations
a bob haircut
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the dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line
the docked tail of a horse
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a short line ending a stanza
Verb
bob (third-person singular simple present bobs, present participle bobbing, simple past and past participle bobbed)
- (transitive) To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
- I got my hair bobbed. How do you like it?
- (transitive) To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.
- To bobsleigh.
Translations
cut into a bob haircut
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Etymology 3
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
bob (plural bob or (rare) bobs)
- (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, […]
- (Australia, dated slang) A 10-cent coin.
- (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.”
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)
Etymology 5
Noun
bob (plural bobs)
- (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 […]
- 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
Derived terms
See also
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From bewust onbeschonken bestuurder (“deliberately unintoxicated driver”).
Noun
bob m (plural bobs, diminutive bobje n)
Etymology 2
Noun
bob f or m (plural bobs)
- (winter sports) bob, bobsleigh
- Synonym: bobslee
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From the English personal name Bob, used to designate light infantrymen, and probably introduced into French during the First World War.
Noun
bob m (plural bobs)
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
bob m (plural bobs)
Further reading
- “bob”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hungarian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Noun
bob (plural bobok)
- bobsleigh
- a type of sled (a flat-bottomed concave plastic sled with no runners, equipped with brakes)
- 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
Compound words
Further reading
- 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
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
bob m (genitive singular bob, nominative plural bobanna)
- (hair) bob
- fringe (of hair over forehead)
- bob(tail)
- Synonym: bob eireabaill
Derived terms
- bob leicinn (“hair parted to one side”)
- bob scoilte (“parting”) (in hair)
Noun
bob m (genitive singular bob, nominative plural bobanna)
Declension
Declension of bob
Derived terms
- bob a bhualadh ar dhuine (“to play a trick on someone”)
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
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bob”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bob”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “bob”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Italian
Etymology
Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping of English bobsled.
Pronunciation
Noun
bob m (invariable)
- bobsleigh / bobsled
- Synonym: (rare) guidoslitta
Related terms
Lower Sorbian
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 inan
- (uncountable) bean plant
- beanfield
Declension
Declension of bob
Derived terms
- bobowka f (“an individual bean seed”)
See also
- tšuka f (“bean pod”)
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
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
bob m (plural bobes)
- curler (small cylindrical tube)
- hair roller, hair curler
Romanian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian bȍb.
Noun
bob n (plural boabe)
- a type of bean, field bean, horse bean, broad bean
- a grain
- any seed, pit, stone, berry
Declension
Declension of bob
Related terms
See also
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English bobsleigh.
Noun
bob n (plural boburi)
Declension
Declension of bob
See also
Scots
Etymology 1
From Middle English bobbe (“cluster of fruit; spray of leaves”).[1]
Noun
bob (plural bobs)
- a bunch, a cluster (of things)
- (obsolete) a nosegay, bunch of flowers
- a knot; a bunch of ribbon
- a patch of rich grass
Verb
bob (third-person singular simple present bobs, present participle bobbin, simple past bobbit, past participle bobbit)
Etymology 2
Uncertain. Possibly onomatopoeic expressing quick movement,[2] but compare English bob, above.[3]
Noun
bob (plural bobs)
- a dance
Verb
bob (third-person singular simple present bobs, present participle bobbin, simple past bobbit, past participle bobbit)
Etymology 3
Unknown. Possibly from Middle English bobben (“to strike”) or Old French bober, baubir (“to mock, deride”).[4]
Noun
bob (plural bobs)
References
- ^ “bob, n.1” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- ^ “bob, n.2” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- ^ “bab, v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- ^ “bob, n.3” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bobъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
bȍb m (Cyrillic spelling бо̏б)
Declension
Declension of bob
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
bȍb m (Cyrillic spelling бо̏б)
Declension
Declension of bob
Sicilian
Noun
bob m
Spanish
Pronunciation
Noun
bob m (plural bobs)
- bob, bob haircut (hairstyle)
Welsh
Pronunciation
Adjective
bob
- Soft mutation of pob.
Mutation
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