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Webster 1913 Edition

Bob

Bob

(bŏb)
,
Noun.
[An onomatopoetic word, expressing quick, jerky motion; OE.
bob
bunch,
bobben
to strike, mock, deceive. Cf. Prov. Eng.
bob
, n., a ball, an engine beam, bunch, blast, trick, taunt, scoff; as, a v., to dance, to courtesy, to disappoint, OF.
bober
to mock.]
1.
Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant;
as, the
bob
at the end of a kite’s tail
.
In jewels dressed and at each ear a
bob
.
Dryden.
2.
A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait.
Or yellow
bobs
, turned up before the plow,
Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enow.
Lauson.
3.
A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.
4.
The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line.
5.
A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
6.
A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing;
as, a
bob
of the head
.
7.
(Steam Engine)
A working beam.
8.
A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
A plain brown
bob
he wore.
Shenstone.
9.
A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.
10.
The refrain of a song.
To bed, to bed, will be the
bob
of the song.
L'Estrange.
11.
A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
12.
A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick.
He that a fool doth very wisely hit,
Doth very foolishly, although he smart,
Not to seem senseless of the
bob
.
Shakespeare
13.
A shilling.
[Slang, Eng.]
Dickens.

Bob

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Bobbed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Bobbing
.]
[OE.
bobben
. See
Bob
,
Noun.
]
1.
To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob.
“He bobbed his head.”
W. Irving.
2.
To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
If any man happened by long sitting to sleep . . . he was suddenly
bobbed
on the face by the servants.
Elyot.
3.
To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.
Gold and jewels that I
bobbed
from him.
Shakespeare
4.
To mock or delude; to cheat.
To play her pranks, and
bob
the fool,
The shrewish wife began.
Turbervile.
5.
To cut short;
as, to
bob
the hair, or a horse's tail
.

Bob

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.
“Bobbing and courtesying.”
Thackeray.
2.
To angle with a bob. See
Bob
,
Noun.
, 2 & 3.
He ne'er had learned the art to
bob

For anything but eels.
Saxe.
To bob at an apple
,
cherry
, etc.
to attempt to bite or seize with the mouth an apple, cherry, or other round fruit, while it is swinging from a string or floating in a tug of water.

Webster 1828 Edition

Bob

BOB

,
Noun.
Any little round thing, that plays loosely at the end of a string, cord, or movable machine; a little ornament or pendant that hangs so as to play loosely.
Our common people apply the word to a knot of worms, on a string,used in fishing for eels.
1.
The words repeated at the end of a stanza.
2.
A blow; a shake or jog; a jeer or flout.
3.
The ball of a short pendulum.
4.
A mode of ringing.
5.
A bob-wig.

BOB

,
Verb.
I.
To play backward and forward; to play loosely against any thing.
1.
To angle, or fish for eels, or to catch eels with a bob.

Definition 2024

Bob

Bob

See also: bob, BOB, ВОВ, and bób

English

Proper noun

Bob

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Robert.

Translations

Noun

Bob ‎(plural Bobs)

  1. A generic male person.
  2. (cryptography, physics, etc.) A placeholder name for the person or system receiving a message or signal from a source conventionally known as Alice.

Usage notes

Despite being used as a common noun, the word is typically still treated as a name and left capitalized.

Synonyms

  • Jack (generic male)
  • party B (placeholder)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Anagrams

Portuguese

Proper noun

Bob m

  1. (cryptography) Bob (person or system receiving a message)
  2. A male given name

bob

bob

See also: Bob, BOB, ВОВ, and bób

English

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 under water and saw the goldfish.
    bob one's head (= to nod)
  3. To curtsy.
  4. To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
    • Elyot
      He was suddenly bobbed on the face by the servants.
Translations
Derived terms

Noun

bob ‎(plural bobs)

  1. A bobbing motion.
    a bob of the head
  2. A bobber.
    • Lauson
      Or yellow bobs turn'd up before the plough / Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enough.
  3. A curtsy.
Translations

Etymology 2

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. A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
  6. The short runner of a sled.
  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.
    • Shenstone
      A plain brown bob he wore.
  12. (obsolete) The refrain of a song.
    • L'Estrange
      To bed, to bed, will be the bob of the song.
  13. (obsolete) A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.
    • Shakespeare
      He that a fool doth very wisely hit, / Doth very foolishly, although he smart, / Not to seem senseless of the bob.
Translations

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. Short form of bobsleigh
Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

bob ‎(plural bob)

  1. (Kenya, slang ; UK and Australia, historical, dated slang) A shilling.
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 12, The Cyclops
      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, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, xxix
      ‘’Ere y’are, the best rig-out you ever ’ad. A tosheroon [half a crown] 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. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XVII
      […] 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.
Derived terms
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.

Etymology 4

Noun

bob ‎(plural bobs)

  1. Abbreviation of shishkabob.

Etymology 5

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 (on Internet newsgroup comp.sys.amiga.programmer)
      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. (on Internet newsgroup fm.announce)
      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

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology

From bewust onbeschonken bestuurder.

Noun

bob m ‎(plural bobs, diminutive bobje n)

  1. designated driver

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔb/

Noun

bob m ‎(plural bobs)

  1. bucket hat, fishing hat

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbob]
  • Hyphenation: bob

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

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
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

Irish

Noun 1

bob m ‎(genitive singular bob, nominative plural bobanna)

  1. (hair) bob
    1. fringe (of hair over forehead)
    2. bob(tail)
Synonyms
  • (bobtail): bob eireabaill
Derived terms
  • bob scoilte ‎(“parting”) (in hair)
  • bob leicinn ‎(“hair parted to one side”)

Noun 2

bob m ‎(genitive singular bob, nominative plural bobanna)

  1. stump, target (in games)
Derived terms
  • bob a bhualadh ar dhuine ‎(“to play a trick on someone”)

Declension

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

Italian

Noun

bob m ‎(invariable)

  1. bobsleigh / bobsled

Related terms

Lower Sorbian

bob

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

  • IPA(key): /bɔp/

Noun

bob m

  1. (uncountable) bean plant
  2. beanfield

Declension

Derived terms

  • bobowka f ‎(“an individual bean seed”)

See also

  • tšuka f ‎(“bean pod”)

Romanian

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian bob.

Noun

bob n ‎(plural [please provide])

  1. A type of bean.
  2. Any seed, pit, stone, berry.

Related terms

  • boabă

See also

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *bobъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bôb/

Noun

bȍb m ‎(Cyrillic spelling бо̏б)

  1. broad bean
  2. horse bean
Declension

Etymology 2

From English bob.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bôb/

Noun

bȍb m ‎(Cyrillic spelling бо̏б)

  1. bobsled
Declension

Spanish

Noun

bob m ‎(plural bobs)

  1. bob, bob haircut (hairstyle)

Welsh

Adjective

bob

  1. Soft mutation of pob.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
pob bob mhob phob
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: bŏb, IPA(key): /bɒb/
  • Rhymes: -ɒb
  • (US) enPR: bäb, bôb, IPA(key): /bɑb/, /bɔb/

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