bob

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


bob

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.

(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.

I bobbed my head underwater and saw the goldfish.

bob one’s head (= to nod)

(transitive) To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.

She bobbed on his knob.

(with on) To perform oral sex on someone.

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, […]

1531, Thomas Elyot, “In what wise musike may be to a noble man necessarie: and what modestie ought to be therin”, in The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:

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.

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:

To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.

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?

1876, George Christopher Davies, The Swan and Her Crew, page 134:

(intransitive) Synonym of blob (“catch eels using worms strung on thread”)

en-verb

bob (third-person singular simple present bobs, present participle bobbing, simple past and past participle bobbed)

bobs (present singular third-person)
bobbing (participle present)
bobbed (participle past)
bobbed (past)

sballottare

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").


bob

a bob of the head

A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.

Or yellow bobs turn’d up before the plough / Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enough.

1613, John Dennys, The Secrets of Angling:


bob

Ecod! I have got them. Here they are. My cousin Con's necklaces, bobs and all.

1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer:

Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it.

The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.

A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.

A particular style of ringing changes on bells.

A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.

A plain brown bob he wore.

1737, William Shenstone, The Extent of Cookery:

(obsolete) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.

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.

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:

Hee, that a Foole doth very wiſely hit,
Doth very fooliſhly, although he ſmart,
Seeme ſenſeleſſe of the bob.

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:

(obsolete) A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.

топка

the dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line

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


bob

I got my hair bobbed. How do you like it?

(transitive) To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.

(transitive) To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.


bob

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.

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 308:

“’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.”

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:

[…] 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, […]

1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

(Kenya, slang; UK and Australia, historical, dated) A shilling.

(Australia, dated slang) A 10-cent coin.

Spot me a few bob, Robert.

I could have saved myself a few bob buying it somewhere else.

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.

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:

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.”

1964, Len Deighton, “Tuesday, November 5th”, in Funeral in Berlin, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, published 1965, →LCCN, page 294:


bob

The bob list determines the drawing priority […]

1986, Eugene P Mortimore, Amiga programmer's handbook, Volumes 1-2:

IMHO, youd ^([sic]) be better doing other things with the CPU and letting the blitter draw bobs, esp on a machine with fast ram.

1995, John Girvin, “Blitting bobs”, in comp.sys.amiga.programmer (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

2002, demoeffects, “Demotized 0.0.1 - A collection of demo effects from the early days of the demo scene.”, in fm.announce (Usenet):

(computer graphics, demoscene) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.


bob

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


bob

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)

bobok (plural)
bob (nominative singular)
bobok (nominative plural)
bobot (accusative singular)
bobokat (accusative plural)
bobnak (dative singular)
boboknak (dative plural)
bobbal (instrumental singular)
bobokkal (instrumental plural)
bobért (causal-final singular)
bobokért (causal-final plural)
bobbá (singular translative)
bobokká (plural translative)
bobig (singular terminative)
bobokig (plural terminative)
bobként (essive-formal singular)
bobokként (essive-formal plural)
bobban (inessive singular)
bobokban (inessive plural)
bobon (singular superessive)
bobokon (plural superessive)
bobnál (adessive singular)
boboknál (adessive plural)
bobba (illative singular)
bobokba (illative plural)
bobra (singular sublative)
bobokra (plural sublative)
bobhoz (allative singular)
bobokhoz (allative plural)
bobból (elative singular)
bobokból (elative plural)
bobról (delative singular)
bobokról (delative plural)
bobtól (ablative singular)
boboktól (ablative plural)
bobé (singular)
boboké (plural)
bobéi (singular)
bobokéi (plural)
bobom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
bobjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
bobod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
bobjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
bobja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
bobjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
bobunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
bobjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
bobotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
bobjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
bobjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
bobjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


bob

(hair) bob
fringe (of hair over forehead)

head

bob m (genitive singular bob, nominative plural bobanna)

bob (genitive singular)
bobanna (nominative plural)


bob

bob (genitive singular)
bobanna (nominative plural)
bob (indefinite nominative singular)
bobanna (indefinite nominative plural)
a bhob (indefinite singular vocative)
a bhobanna (indefinite plural vocative)
bob (genitive indefinite singular)
bobanna (genitive indefinite plural)
bob (dative indefinite singular)
bobanna (dative indefinite plural)
an bob (definite nominative singular)
na bobanna (definite nominative plural)
an bhob (definite genitive singular)
na mbobanna (definite genitive plural)
leis an mbob (dative definite singular)
don bhob (dative definite singular)
leis na bobanna (dative definite plural)
bob
bhob
mbob


bob

Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping of English bobsled.


bob

bob (nominative singular)
boba (dual nominative)
boby (nominative plural)
boba (genitive singular)
bobowu (dual genitive)
bobow (genitive plural)
boboju (dative singular)
boboma (dative dual)
bobam (dative plural)
bob (accusative singular)
boba (accusative dual)
boby (accusative plural)
bobom (instrumental singular)
boboma (dual instrumental)
bobami (instrumental plural)
bobje (locative singular)
boboma (dual locative)
bobach (locative plural)

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


bob

bobes (plural)
bobe (alternative)
bóbi (alternative)


bob

a type of bean, field bean, horse bean, broad bean

boabe (plural)
bob (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
bobul (accusative definite nominative singular)
boabe (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
boabele (accusative definite nominative plural)
bob (indefinite singular)
bobului (definite singular)
boabe (indefinite singular)
boabelor (definite plural)
bobule (singular vocative)
boabelor (vocative)


bob

boburi (plural)
bob (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
bobul (accusative definite nominative singular)
boburi (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
boburile (accusative definite nominative plural)
bob (indefinite singular)
bobului (definite singular)
boburi (indefinite singular)
boburilor (definite plural)
bobule (singular vocative)
boburilor (vocative)


bob

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


bob

head

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

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


bob

Uncertain. Possibly onomatopoeic expressing quick movement, but compare English bob, above.


bob

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


bob

bȍb (canonical masculine)
бо̏б (Cyrillic)
bob (nominative singular)
bobovi (nominative plural)
boba (genitive singular)
bobova (genitive plural)
bobu (dative singular)
bobovima (dative plural)
bob (accusative singular)
bobove (accusative plural)
bobe (singular vocative)
bobovi (plural vocative)
bobu (locative singular)
bobovima (locative plural)
bobom (instrumental singular)
bobovima (instrumental plural)


bob

bȍb (canonical masculine)
бо̏б (Cyrillic)
bȍb (nominative singular)
bòbovi (nominative plural)
boba (genitive singular)
bobova (genitive plural)
bobu (dative singular)
bobovima (dative plural)
bob (accusative singular)
bobove (accusative plural)
bobe (singular vocative)
bobovi (plural vocative)
bobu (locative singular)
bobovima (locative plural)
bobom (instrumental singular)
bobovima (instrumental plural)


bob

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