different between toby vs oby

English

Noun

toby (plural tobies)

1. A drinking mug, in the shape of a human head with a hat atop; a Toby jug.
2. (Britain, New Zealand) The valve that mediates the connection between a mains water-supply and a premises's own plumbing.
3. (Britain, dated, slang) The road or highway.
   • 1931, Eric Blair (the real name of George Orwell), "Hop-picking" in The New Statesman of 17th October 1931.

     It is no wonder that itinerant agricultural workers travel on the toby and sleep in casual wards between jobs.

4. (US, dated, regional) A kind of inferior cigar of a long slender shape, tapered at one end.
5. The Moorish idol, Zanclus cornutus
6. Any of several species of pufferfish in the genus Canthigaster

Derived terms

• toby box

Anagrams

• Boyt

English

Noun

oby (plural obies)

1. Archaic form of obeah.

Anagrams

• BYO, Y. O. B., Y.O.B., YOB, YoB, boy, byo, yob

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??????/, /t?????/, /s?????/

Adjective

oby

1. green, blue

Usage notes

• The stem oby could never be used inside a sentence without a prefix. In predicative position, the form toby was used for animate subjects, and soby for inanimate subjects. When modifying nouns, the noun itself would be agglutinated with the adjective (as nouns always precede adjectives in Tupi).

References

• LEMOS BARBOSA, A. Curso de Tupi antigo. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, 1956.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.b?/

Particle

oby

1. hopefully, if only, let, may

   Synonyms: bodaj, niech, niechaj

Further reading

• oby in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• oby in Polish dictionaries at PWN