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dob
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)
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
- (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)
- 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
- 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)
- (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.
- 2009, Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs (page 54)
Anagrams
- BOD, Bod, bod
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [dop]
- Rhymes: -op
Noun
dob
- 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
- (transitive, intransitive) to throw, to cast (to cause an object to move rapidly through the air)
- Synonyms: hajít, vet
- (transitive, intransitive, games) to roll (to throw dice)
- (transitive, colloquial) to dump (to end a relationship with)
- (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)
- drum (a percussive musical instrument)
Declension
Derived terms
References
Irish
Alternative forms
- dob' (superseded)
Particle
dob
- (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 ????)
- age
Declension
Related terms
- kameno doba
Slovene
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dó?p/
Noun
d??b m inan
- oak
Inflection
Synonyms
- hrást
Noun
dôb
- genitive dual/plural of dóba
Further reading
- “dob”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
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dop
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?p/
Etymology 1
From Middle English doppe, from Old English *doppa (“diver”), as in Old English d?fedoppa (“pelican”).
Noun
dop (plural dops)
- A diving bird.
Etymology 2
From Middle English doppen, from Old English *doppian (“to dip, dive, plunge”), related to Old English doppettan (“to dip, dip in, immerse”).
Verb
dop (third-person singular simple present dops, present participle dopping, simple past and past participle dopped)
- (South Africa, slang) To fail or to plug (an examination, standard or grade)
- To dip or duck.
- you may dape or dop, and also with a grasshopper, behind a tree, or in any deep hole; still making it to move on the top of the water, as if it were alive, and still keeping yourself out of sight
Etymology 3
From Dutch dop, Dutch doppen.
Noun
dop (plural dops)
- (South Africa, slang). A drink.
- (South Africa, slang) An imprecise measure of alcohol; a dash.
- (obsolete) A dip; a low courtesy.
- 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels
- The Venetian dop this
- 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels
- A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.
Synonyms
- (cup in which diamond is cut): doop
Verb
dop (third-person singular simple present dops, present participle dopping, simple past and past participle dopped)
- (South Africa, slang) To drink alcohol.
- 2004, Patrick Stevens, Politics is the Greatest Game (page 170)
- They not only forswore dopping themselves, but also contrived to make the National Party forgo a dop.
- 2004, Patrick Stevens, Politics is the Greatest Game (page 170)
See also
- dop kit
Anagrams
- -pod, DPO, ODP, PDO, PO'd, POD, po'd, pod, pod-
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?p/
- Hyphenation: dop
- Rhymes: -?p
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch doppe.
Noun
dop m (plural doppen, diminutive dopje n)
- A shell (of an egg or a fruit for example).
- Beter een half ei dan een hele dop. - Better half an egg than a whole (empty) shell.
- A hemispherical container such as a thimble.
- A bottle cap.
- Synonym: flessendop
- (chiefly in the plural) An eyelid.
- Kijk uit je doppen! - Look out!
- (Belgium, uncountable) The dole, unemployment benefit.
Derived terms
- dopbeitel
- dopbonen
- doperwt
- dopgeld
- dopheide
- dophoed
- dopijzer
- dopjongen
- doppen (verb)
- doppot
- dopverband
- dopvrucht
- eierdop
- flessendop
- in de dop
- vingerdop
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: dop
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
dop
- first-person singular present indicative of doppen
- imperative of doppen
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian dopo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dop/, /d?p/
Preposition
dop
- behind, after (in place), back of
Antonyms
- avan
Derived terms
- dopa (“back, rear, hind”)
- dope (“astern, at the back, aback”)
- dopo (“back”)
- dopajo (“rear, back (object or part behind)”)
- dedop (“from behind”)
- dop-
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch dop.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?d?p]
- Hyphenation: dop
Noun
dop (first-person possessive dopku, second-person possessive dopmu, third-person possessive dopnya)
- A cap of axis.
- An arc lamp.
Further reading
- “dop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Romanian
Etymology
From Transylvanian Saxon Dop (“stopper”).
Noun
dop n (plural dopuri)
- A cork (of a bottle), stopper
Declension
Synonyms
- astupu? (popular)
Derived terms
- îndopa
Swedish
Etymology
Related to doppa (to dip), döpa (to baptize).
Pronunciation
Noun
dop n
- A baptism, a christening ceremony.
Declension
Related terms
- djup
- dopp
- doppa
- döpa
Derived terms
References
- dop in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
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