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dyb
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Short for do your best. dyb (or dib) and dob were used as abbreviated forms of do your best and do our best in certain Scout chants.
Pronunciation
Verb
dyb (third-person singular simple present dybs, present participle dybbing, simple past and past participle dybbed)
- (intransitive, sometimes humorous, scouting) In the scouting movement, to chant dyb, meaning "do your best" (to follow the scouting laws).
- 2009, Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs, page 54:
- I used to get through the dibbing and dobbing all right but during the howling I usually rolled over backwards.
- 2009, Wendy Holden, Beautiful People:
- 'I'm a scout,' she smiled at him. The boy, in his turn, stared at Sam. He'd heard somewhere that scouting had got more trendy lately, that it was more snowboarding and surfing than dib-dib-dibbing and doing old ladies' gardens.
- 2009, Justin Pollard, The Interesting Bits:
- 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 […]
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Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse djúpr, from Proto-Germanic *deupaz, cognate with English deep and German tief.
Pronunciation
Adjective
dyb (neuter dybt, plural and definite singular attributive dybe)
Inflection
1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,
the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.
Noun
dyb n (singular definite dybet, plural indefinite dyb)
Inflection
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Polish
Pronunciation
Verb
dyb
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