Etymology : Middle English boben
Pronunciation : 'bäb
Function : verb
Date : 13th century
1. male first name (form of Robert). short haircut worn by women and children. cut hair in a bob; move up and down; appear, emerge.
2. to visit briefly: "I'm just gonna bob down to the corner shop for some fags, do you want anything? ".
3. a shilling in pre-decimal currency which now amounts to 5 pence. bob\bob\, v. i.
4. to have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything. "bobbing and courtesying.".
5. to angle with a bob. see:
bob, n., 2 &.
6. he ne'er had learned the art to bob for anything but eels.
7. 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.
8. A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait.
9. A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.
10. The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line.
11. A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
12. A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head.
13. A working beam.
14. A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
15. A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.
16. The refrain of a song.
17. A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
18. A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick.
19. A shilling.
20. To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move with a bob.
21. To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
22. To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.
23. To mock or delude; to cheat.
24. To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.
25. To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.
26. To angle with a bob.
27. See Bob, n., 2 & 3. a short abrupt inclination ; "he gave me a short bob of acknowledgement" a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line a hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string a hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around cut hair in the style of a bob; "Bernice bobs her hair these days!" move up and down repeatedly; "her rucksack bobbed gently on her back".
28. 1. If something bobs, it moves up and down, like something does when it is floating on water. Huge balloons bobbed about in the sky above.
29. If you bob somewhere, you move there quickly so that you disappear from view or come into view. She handed over a form, then bobbed down again behind a typewriter.
30. When you bob your head, you move it quickly up and down once, for example when you greet someone. A hostess stood at the top of the steps and bobbed her head at each passenger. = nod Bob is also a noun. The young man smiled with a bob of his head. = nod.
31. A bob is a fairly short hair style for women in which the hair is the same length all the way round, except for the front.
32. Bits and bobs are small objects or parts of something. The microscope contains a few hundred dollars-worth of electronic bits and bobs. A shilling. Bob's your uncle! used to say that something will be easy to do. Bob and Ray Cousy Bob Dole Bob Dylan Bob Feller Bob Fosse Bob Gibson Bob Hayes Bob Hope Bob Marley Bob Mathias Bob Wills Bob.
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