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See also: Bob, BOB, bób, and böb

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Boni with b as a placeholder.

Symbol

bob

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

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English

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Pronunciation

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)

    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 knob.
    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

    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

      From Middle English bobbe (“a cluster (of fruit); a twig with its leaves, a spray”), perhaps of Celtic origin (compare Irish baban "tassel, cluster," Gaelic babag).

      Noun

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

      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

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

        Noun

        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.”
        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.
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        Etymology 4

          Noun

          bob (plural bobs)

          1. Clipping of shishkabob.

          Etymology 5

            Blend of blitter object.

            Noun

            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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            Pronunciation

            Etymology 1

            Noun

            bob m (plural bobs, diminutive bobje n)

            1. alternative form of Bob (“designated driver”)

            Etymology 2

            Borrowed from English bob.

            Noun

            bob f or m (plural bobs, no diminutive)

            1. (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)

            1. bucket hat, fishing hat

            Etymology 2

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

            Noun

            bob m (plural bobs)

            1. (Belgium) designated driver, DD

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            Hungarian

            Etymology

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

            Pronunciation

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

            Noun

            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

            More information singular, plural ...
            More information possessor, single possession ...

            Synonyms

            Derived terms

            Compound words
            • bobpálya

            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).
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            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)

            1. (hair) bob
              1. fringe (of hair over forehead)
              2. 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)

            1. stump, target (in games)

            Declension

            More information bare forms, singular ...

            Derived terms

            • bob a bhualadh ar dhuine (“to play a trick on someone”)

            Mutation

            More information radical, lenition ...

            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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            Alternative forms

            Etymology

            Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping of English bobsled.

            Pronunciation

            • IPA(key): /ˈbɔb/
            • Rhymes: -ɔb
            • Hyphenation: bòb
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            Noun

            bob m (invariable)

            1. bobsleigh / bobsled
              Synonym: (rare) guidoslitta
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            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

            1. (uncountable) bean plant
            2. beanfield

            Declension

            Declension of bob
            More information Singular, Dual ...

            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
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            Portuguese

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            Pronunciation

            Noun

            bob m (plural bobes)

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

            Romanian

            Pronunciation

            Etymology 1

            Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian bȍb.

            Noun

            bob n (plural boabe)

            1. a type of bean, field bean, horse bean, broad bean
            2. a grain
            3. any seed, pit, stone, berry
            Declension
            More information singular, plural ...

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            Etymology 2

            Borrowed from English bobsleigh.

            Noun

            bob n (plural boburi)

            1. bobsleigh
            Declension
            More information singular, plural ...

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            Serbo-Croatian

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            Welsh

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