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sox

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -?ks

Noun

sox pl (plural only)

  1. (informal) plural of sock (footwear)

Derived terms

  • Bosox
  • Chisox

Anagrams

  • OS X

Parauk

Alternative forms

  • (PRC orthography) soux

Etymology

From Proto-Palaungic *c???, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *c??.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /so?/

Noun

sox 

  1. (zoology) dog

References

Watkins, Justin (2013) Dictionary of Wa, Leiden

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sob

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /s?b/
  • (General American) enPR: säb, IPA(key): /s?b/
  • Rhymes: -?b

Etymology 1

Perhaps of Dutch or Low German origin; compare with Dutch dialect sabben 'to suck'.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

sob (plural sobs)

  1. A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath.
  2. (onomatopoeia) sound of sob
    • 1874, George Carter Stent, The Jade Chaplet in Twenty-four Beads:
      “My husband, alas! whom I now (sob, sob) mourn,
      A short time since (sob) to this grave (sob) was borne;
      And (sob) he lies buried in this (sob, sob) grave.”
Derived terms
  • sobby
  • sob story
  • sob stuff
Translations

Verb

sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)

  1. (intransitive) to weep with convulsive gasps.
    • She sigh'd, she sobb'd, and, furious with despair, / She rent her garments, and she tore her hair.
  2. (transitive) to say (something) while sobbing.
    "He doesn't love me!" she sobbed.
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:weep
Translations


Etymology 2

See sop.

Verb

sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)

  1. To soak.

Anagrams

  • BOS, BSO, Bos., OBs, OSB, Obs, bos, obs

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sop/

Noun

sob m

  1. reindeer (an Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer)

Declension

Further reading

  • sob in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
  • sob in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sob/
  • Hyphenation: sob

Adverb

sob

  1. (nonstandard) down, downwards (direction to the center of the Earth)

Synonyms

  • malsupren (down, downwards)

Antonyms

  • supren (up, upwards)
  • (neologism, nonstandard) sor (up, upwards)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese sob, so, su, from Latin sub, from Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upo (under, below).

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /sob/
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /?so.bi/, /sob/
  • Hyphenation: sob

Preposition

sob

  1. under

Antonyms

  • sobre

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

sob m (Cyrillic spelling ???)

  1. reindeer

See also

  • irvas/?????

Tzotzil

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /s??m?/

Noun

sob

  1. early morning

Adjective

sob

  1. of early morning

References

  • Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Volapük

Noun

sob (nominative plural sobs)

  1. soap

Declension

sob From the web:

  • what sobers you up
  • what sober couldn't say
  • what song is this
  • what sober means
  • what sober couldn't say lyrics
  • what sob means
  • what sobriety means
  • what sob stand for
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