bob

Etymology 1
From, of uncertain origin. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, Dutch dobberen ("bobbing").

Verb

 * 1)  To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium.
 * 2)  To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
 * bob one's head (= to nod)
 * 1)  To perform oral sex on someone.
 * She bobbed on his member.
 * 1) To curtsy.
 * 2) To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
 * 1)  To perform oral sex on someone.
 * She bobbed on his member.
 * 1) To curtsy.
 * 2) To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, клатя се
 * Dutch: ,
 * French:
 * Italian:, , , spuntare fuori
 * Maori: mārangaranga
 * Russian:, ,
 * Swedish:


 * Italian: sballottare
 * Russian:, , ,

Noun

 * 1) A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
 * 2) A curtsy.
 * 3) A bobber buoyant fishing device.
 * 4) Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
 * 1) Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
 * 1) Any of various hesperiid butterflies.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Italian: sballottio
 * Russian: ,

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) A bob haircut.
 * 2) Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it.
 * 3) The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
 * 4) The docked tail of a horse.
 * 5) A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
 * 6) The short runner of a sled.
 * 7) A bobsleigh.
 * 8) A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
 * 9) A working beam in a steam engine.
 * 10) A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
 * 11) A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
 * 12)  A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
 * 13)  The refrain of a song.
 * 14)  A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.
 * 1)  The refrain of a song.
 * 2)  A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.
 * 1)  A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: конска опашка
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Russian: карэ́


 * Bulgarian: топка (на махало), тежест (на отвес), опашка (на хвърчило), висулка, поплавък
 * French: ,
 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian: подрязана опашка
 * Russian: купи́рованный хвост


 * Bulgarian:
 * Russian: ,


 * Russian:

Verb

 * 1)  To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
 * 2)  To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.
 * 3) To bobsleigh.
 * 1) To bobsleigh.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: подстригвам късо

Noun

 * 1)  A shilling.
 * 2)  A 10-cent coin.
 * 3)  An unspecified amount of money.
 * 1)  A 10-cent coin.
 * 2)  An unspecified amount of money.
 * 1)  An unspecified amount of money.

Usage notes

 * The use of bob for shilling is dated slang in the UK and Australia, since decimalisation. In East African countries where the currency is the shilling, it is current usage, and not considered slang. OED gives first usage as 1789.
 * The use of bob to describe a 10-cent coin is derived from the fact that it was of equal worth to a shilling during decimalisation, however since then, the term has slowly dropped out of usage and is seldom used today.

Noun

 * 1)  A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) designated driver

Etymology 2
Borrowed from.

Etymology 1
From the personal name, used to designate light infantrymen, and probably introduced into French during the First World War.

Noun

 * 1) bucket hat, fishing hat

Noun

 * 1)  designated driver, DD

Noun

 * 1) bobsleigh
 * 2) a type of sled a flat-bottomed concave plastic sled with no runners, equipped with brakes
 * 3) a car used on the track of an alpine slide or bobsled rollercoaster mountain coaster

Noun

 * 1) fringe
 * 2) bob(tail)
 * 1) bob(tail)

Noun

 * 1) stump, target

Etymology
, a clipping of.

Noun

 * 1) bobsleigh / bobsled

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  bean plant
 * 2) beanfield

Noun

 * 1) curler small cylindrical tube
 * 2) hair roller, hair curler

Etymology 1
.

Noun

 * 1) a type of bean, field bean, horse bean, broad bean
 * 2) a grain
 * 3) any seed, pit, stone, berry

Etymology 2
.

Noun

 * 1) bobsleigh

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) a bunch, a cluster (of things)
 * 2)  a nosegay, bunch of flowers
 * 3) a knot; a bunch of ribbon
 * 4) a patch of rich grass

Verb

 * 1)  to grow richly in patches

Etymology 2
. Possibly expressing quick movement, but compare 🇨🇬, above.

Noun

 * 1) a dance

Verb

 * 1) to dance with up-and-down movement

Etymology 3
. Possibly from or,.

Noun

 * 1) a target, a mark to aim at
 * 2) a taunt

Etymology 1
.

Noun

 * 1) broad bean
 * 2) horse bean

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) bobsled

Noun

 * 1) bobsleigh / bobsled

Noun

 * , bob haircut hairstyle