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Definitions and meaning of dob

dob

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɑb/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɒb/
• Rhymes: -ɒb

Etymology 1

Uncertain.

Verb

dob (third-person singular simple present dobs, present participle dobbing, simple past and past participle dobbed)

1. (slang, chiefly Australia, New Zealand) To report (a person) to someone in authority for a wrongdoing.

   I’ll dob on you if you break in.

   You dobbed me in! — I never did!

   • 1998, Supreme Court of Victoria, Council of Law Reporting in Victoria, Victorian Reports, Volume 4, page 372,

     The deceased “dobbed” him in about drugs to police on two occasions. This resulted in police seizing some of his drugs. She “dobbed” him in because he would not give her amphetamines. He may have told people that she “dobbed” him in.
2. (slang, chiefly Australia) To do one's share; to contribute.

   We all dobbed in for a gift when he retired.
3. (slang, chiefly Australia) To nominate a person, often in their absence, for an unpleasant task.

   I arrived just after the meeting had started and found myself dobbed in to take the minutes.

   • 1977, University of British Columbia, Canadian Literature, Issues 74-77, page 108,

     Writing reviews reminds me of the time I got dobbed in to be the judge at the Poochera sheep dog trials. It′s easy they said, sinking beers in the shade of the lean-to, just watch the dog.
4. (slang, Northern Ireland) To play truant

Usage notes

(all senses): Most often used with "in" or "on".

Synonyms

• (report a person): See also Thesaurus:rat out
• (play truant): See also Thesaurus:play truant

Derived terms

• dob in
• dobber

Noun

dob (plural dobs)

1. A small amount of something, especially paste.

   Put a dob of butter on the potato, please.

   • 1903, Rudyard Kipling, The Tabu Tale, in Just So Stories (in the U.S. Scribner edition, but omitted from most British editions),

     ‘Consequence will be, O Tegumai,’ said the Head Chief, ‘that we will make them understand it with sticks and stinging-nettles and dobs of mud; and if that doesn't teach them, we'll draw fine, freehand Tribal patterns on their backs with the cutty edges of mussel-shells. […] ’

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:dob.

Related terms

• dab

Etymology 2

Initialism.

Noun

dob

1. Initialism of date of birth.

Alternative forms

• DOB

Etymology 3

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.

Verb

dob (third-person singular simple present dobs, present participle dobbing, simple past and past participle dobbed)

1. (intransitive, sometimes humorous) In the scouting movement, to chant dob to indicate that one will do one's best to follow the scouting laws.

Anagrams

• BOD, Bod, bod

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdop]
• Rhymes: -op

Noun

dob

1. genitive plural of doba

Anagrams

• bod

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdob]
• Hyphenation: dob
• Rhymes: -ob

Etymology 1

From Proto-Ugric *tᴕmpɜ- (“to throw down, to strike (with a clapping sound)”).

Verb

dob

2. (transitive, intransitive) to throw, to cast (to cause an object to move rapidly through the air)

   Synonyms: hajít, vet
3. (transitive) to drop (to intentionally let fall, to release hold of)
4. (transitive, intransitive, games) to roll (to throw dice)
5. (transitive, colloquial) to dump (to end a relationship with)
6. (transitive, computing) to throw (to send an error)

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

Etymology 2

Probably an onomatopoeia.

Noun

dob (plural dobok)

2. drum (a percussive musical instrument)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• (to throw): dob in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (drum): dob in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• dob in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Irish

Alternative forms

• dob' (superseded)

Particle

dob

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of b’

Usage notes

• This form is used before words beginning with a vowel or fh followed by a vowel.

Komo

Noun

dob

1. lion

References

• RWC Workshop (eds.). 2015. Komo – English Dictionary. SIL International.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dobь.

Noun

dȏb f (Cyrillic spelling до̑б)

1. age

Declension

Related terms

• kameno doba

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dóːp/

Noun

dọ̑b m inan

1. oak

   Synonym: hrást

Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

dôb

1. genitive dual/plural of dóba

Further reading

• “dob”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “dob”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references