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"date of birth#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"initialism"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/dɑb/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/dɒb/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒb"
},
{
"audio": "EN-AU ck1 dob.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b1/EN-AU_ck1_dob.ogg/EN-AU_ck1_dob.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/EN-AU_ck1_dob.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "DOB"
}
],
"word": "dob"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ɒb",
"Rhymes:English/ɒb/1 syllable",
"en:Scouting",
"sl:Oaks"
],
"etymology_number": 3,
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dyb"
},
"expansion": "dyb",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dib"
},
"expansion": "dib",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Short for do our best. dyb (or dib) and dob were used as abbreviated forms of do your best and do our best in certain Scout chants.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "dobs",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "dobbing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "dobbed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "dobbed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "dob (third-person singular simple present dobs, present participle dobbing, simple past and past participle dobbed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English humorous terms",
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2009, Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs, page 54",
"text": "I used to get through the dibbing and dobbing all right but during the howling I usually rolled over backwards.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Justin Pollard, The Interesting Bits",
"text": "Why were there 212 fatalities at the first boy scout camp? There wasn't much dybbing and dobbing at Robert Baden-Powell's first scout camp as the camp in question was in Mafeking and took place during a particularly nasty siege[…]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In the scouting movement, to chant dob to indicate that one will do one's best to follow the scouting laws."
],
"links": [
[
"humorous",
"humorous"
],
[
"scouting",
"scouting"
]
],
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"(intransitive, sometimes humorous) In the scouting movement, to chant dob to indicate that one will do one's best to follow the scouting laws."
],
"tags": [
"humorous",
"intransitive",
"sometimes"
]
}
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{
"ipa": "/dɑb/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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"ipa": "/dɒb/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒb"
},
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"audio": "EN-AU ck1 dob.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b1/EN-AU_ck1_dob.ogg/EN-AU_ck1_dob.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/EN-AU_ck1_dob.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "dob"
}
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