dob
/dɑb/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.65 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
Initialism of degree of bending.
name
Initialism of Daughters of Bilitis The first organized and successful lesbian liberation organization in the United States.
name
Initialism of 2 or 5-Dimethoxy-4-bromoamphetamine A psychedelic drug similar to 2C-B.
verb
To report a person to someone in authority for a wrongdoing. (For transitive forms see dob in, dob on.)
Australian usage; New Zealand usage; Intransitive verb; Slang
noun
A small amount of something, especially paste.
noun
Example Sentences
- "Students often claimed that an act of informing was just ‘dobbing as a joke’ and therefore ‘not really dobbing’."
- "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."
- "Parents were taken to court 189 times in the Western region over the past five years because their children were ‘dobbing’ school.¶ The Education Minister John O’Dowd revealed the number of parents taken to court due to children being absent from school […]"
- "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. […] ’"
- "I used to get through the dibbing and dobbing all right but during the howling I usually rolled over backwards."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: dobben
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /dɑb/
- British English: /dɒb/