different between dob vs doab

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?b/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?b/
• Rhymes: -?b

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, and Britain) 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!

   • 1983, James Macpherson, The Feral Classroom, page 107,

     Students often claimed that an act of informing was just ‘dobbing as a joke’ and therefore ‘not really dobbing’.

   • 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.

   • 2006, Ian Findley, Shared Responsibility: Beating Bullying in Australian Schools, page 67,

     Alex was concerned that if others thought he had dobbed, things would get even worse for him. Dobbing was the worst thing a student could do.

2. (slang, chiefly Australia) To do one's share; to contribute.

   We all dobbed in for a gift when he retired.

   • 1968, Louise Elizabeth Rorabacher, Aliens in Their Land: The Aborigine in the Australian Short Story, page 80,

     He?d never take payment in cash for tracking, but when they dobbed in for presentations such as the fridge he accepted them shyly, abashedly, […] .

   • 1976, Margaret Paice, Colour in the Creek, page 53,

     The miners had all dobbed in to buy a few bottles of beer which they left in the creek overnight to cool.

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.

   • 2001, Kerreen M. Reiger, Sheila Kitzinger, Our Bodies, Our Babies: The Forgotten Women's Movement, page 153,

     Those who moved into organisational roles sometimes did it unwittingly, even unwillingly, as they were ‘dobbed’ in for tasks, succeeded and so it went on.

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

• 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.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?b

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.
   • 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.

Anagrams

• BOD, Bod, bod

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dop]
• Rhymes: -op

Noun

dob

1. genitive plural of doba

Anagrams

• bod

Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Proto-Ugric *t?mp?- (“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, intransitive, games) to roll (to throw dice)
4. (transitive, colloquial) to dump (to end a relationship with)
5. (transitive, computing) to throw (to send an error)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• dobál
• dobás

(With verbal prefixes):

(Expressions):

• piacra dob

Etymology 2

Probably an onomatopoeia.

Noun

dob (plural dobok)

2. drum (a percussive musical instrument)

Declension

Derived terms

References

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.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dob?.

Noun

d?b f (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. age

Declension

Related terms

• kameno doba

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dó?p/

Noun

d??b m inan

1. oak

Inflection

Synonyms

• hrást

Noun

dôb

1. genitive dual/plural of dóba

Further reading

• “dob”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ?? ??? (do-âb) and Hindi ???? (do?b), properly meaning "two waters".

Noun

doab (plural doabs)

1. (India) A tongue or tract of land included between two rivers, especially that between the Ganga and the Yamuna

   the doab between the Ganga and the Yamuna

Anagrams

• Abdo, Boda, Obad., abdo, boa'd, boad

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do?ab/

Noun

doab (nominative plural doabs)

1. dollar

Declension