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BobEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Probably from a medieval hypocorism of Rob.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗BOBEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Acronym of battery-operated boyfriend, fortuitously spelling out the male given name Bob in the case of the humorous colloquial definition.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗BOBEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Acronym of back of the book.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bobEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English bobben (“to move up and down or back and forth”), of uncertain origin. Compare Scots bob (“to mark, dance with a bobbing motion”), Icelandic boppa (“to wave up and down”), Swedish bobba (“to bob”), Faroese bøbbur (“something that rises or stands up; top”), Dutch dobberen (“to float, bob”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bobEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English bobbe (“a cluster (of fruit); a twig with its leaves, a spray”), perhaps of Celtic origin (compare Irish baban "tassel, cluster," Gaelic babag).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bobEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
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Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bobEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
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Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bobEnglish (en) · Etymology 5Source text
Blend of blitter object.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- BobEnglish · e-37683-3114
Bob, bob, v.i. to move quickly up and down, to dangle: to fish with a bob.—v.t. to move in a short, jerking manner:—pr.p. bob′bing; pa.p. bobbed.—n. a short jerking motion: a slight blow: anything that moves with a bob o
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Bob, bob, n. (slang) a shilling. [Hardly the O. Fr. bobe = 1½d.]
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Bob, bob, Bobby, bob′i, n. a shortened familiar form of Robert: a familiar name for a policeman—from Sir Robert Peel, Home Secretary at the passing of the Metropolitan Police Act of 1828.—n. Light′-bob, a soldier of the
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