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lob

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lob"

English

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Etymology 1

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First attested late 16th c. in the sense "allow or cause to dangle, hang," from sense 2.

Verb

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lob (third-person singular simple present lobs, present participle lobbing, simple past and past participle lobbed)

  1. (transitive) To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arch.
    The guard lobbed a pass just over the defender.
    The tennis player lobbed the ball, which was a costly mistake.
  2. (transitive, colloquial) To throw.
    Synonyms: fling, hurl; see also Thesaurus:throw
    • 2019 April 6, Caleb Quinley, “Thailand: Anti-military party leader faces sedition charges”, in Al Jazeera‎[1], Doha: Al Jazeera, retrieved 2019-04-06:
      In the months leading up to the election, government representatives took up a cybercrime case against Thanathorn for criticising the government on a Facebook Live video... They also lobbed more legal cases at his party for allegedly spreading false information.
    • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:
      I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand.
  3. (transitive, colloquial) To put, place.
    Synonyms: lay, lay down, put down, set down, deposit
    Lob the bacon in the pot.
  4. (transitive, sports) To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.
    • 2011 January 15, Nabil Hassan, “Wigan 1 - 1 Fulham”, in BBC‎[2]:
      Wigan took the lead when Hugo Rodallega lobbed David Stockdale from close range having earlier headed against the post.
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To let fall heavily or lazily.
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Noun

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lob (plural lobs)

  2. (ball games) A pass or stroke which arches high into the air.
    The guard launched a desperate lob over the outstretched arms of the defender.
    • 2011 February 12, Nabil Hassan, “Blackburn 0 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC‎[3]:
      Peter Lovenkrands went close for the Magpies, hitting the bar with a fine lob after he had been played in by the excellent Jose Enrique on the left.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English lob (“a lazy lout, bundle of clothing”), from Old English *lobb, *lobbe word for lumpish or unwieldy things, from Proto-Germanic *lubbǭ (“that which hangs or dangles”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-, *lep- (“to peel, skin”). Compare Danish lobbes (“bumpkin, clown”), Old English loppe (“spider”) (in the sense of something that hangs or dangles). Possibly influenced or borrowed through Welsh llob (“lump”).

Noun

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lob (plural lobs)

  1. A lump.
    • 1875, M.L. Kenny, The fortunes of Maurice Cronin‎[4], page 126:
      And, moreover, I had no sooner set my eyes on the keys, than I remembered where there was a lob of money lying in Purcell's safe, that I —
  2. (obsolete) A country bumpkin; a yokel.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:country bumpkin
    • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
      Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone: Our queen and all her elves come here anon.
    • 1694, Peter Anthony Motteux, The Fourth Book, translation of original by Rabelais, Chapter XLVII:
      THE country lob trudged home very much concerned and thoughtful, you may swear; insomuch that his good woman, seeing him thus look moping, weened that something had been stolen from him at market […]
  3. A clumsy person.
  4. The person who comes last in a race.
  5. A lob-worm.
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Etymology 3

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From Middle English lob (“pollock”), cognate with Middle Dutch and Middle Low German lobbe (“a type of small plump or stocky fish, cod”), Danish lubbe, from Old Norse lubba, ultimately from sense 2 in the sense of "clumsy, heavily or lumpily hanging."

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lob (plural lobs)

  1. A fish, the European pollock.

Etymology 4

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Blend of long +‎ bob.

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lob (plural lobs)

  1.  A long bob haircut.

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  • Nall, John Greaves (2006): Nall's Glossary of East Anglian Dialect

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Dutch

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Etymology 1

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From Ancient Greek λοβός (lobós).

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lob f or m (plural lobben, diminutive lobbetje n)

  1. lobe, lobule
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English lob.

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lob m (plural lobs, diminutive lobje n)

  1. lob (arching pass of a ball)
    Synonym: boogbal
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Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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lob

  1. inflection of lobben:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

French

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Borrowed from English lob.

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lob m (plural lobs)

  1. (tennis) lob

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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Partly back-formation from lobog, lobban, partly splitting from the obsolete lobb (“flame”).[1][2] First attested in 1829.

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  • IPA(key): [ˈlob]
  • Hyphenation: lob
  • Rhymes: -ob

Noun

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lob

  1. (medicine) inflammation
    Synonym: gyulladás

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative lob lobok
accusative lobot lobokat
dative lobnak loboknak
instrumental lobbal lobokkal
causal-final lobért lobokért
translative lobbá lobokká
terminative lobig lobokig
essive-formal lobként lobokként
essive-modal — —
inessive lobban lobokban
superessive lobon lobokon
adessive lobnál loboknál
illative lobba lobokba
sublative lobra lobokra
allative lobhoz lobokhoz
elative lobból lobokból
delative lobról lobokról
ablative lobtól loboktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		lobé loboké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		lobéi lobokéi
Possessive forms of lob
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. lobom lobjaim
2nd person sing. lobod lobjaid
3rd person sing. lobja lobjai
1st person plural lobunk lobjaink
2nd person plural lobotok lobjaitok
3rd person plural lobjuk lobjaik

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References

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  1. ^ lob in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)
  2. ^ lob in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

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  • lob in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English lob.

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Noun

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lob m (invariable)

  1. lob (in ball games)
    Synonym: pallonetto

Middle English

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Etymology

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From Old English lobbe, variant of loppe.

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lob

  1. Alternative form of loppe (“spider”)

Old High German

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *lob.

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lob n

  1. praise

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  • German: Lob

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French lobe.

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lob m (plural lobi)

  1. lobe

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Declension of lob
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) lob lobul (niște) lobi lobii
genitive/dative (unui) lob lobului (unor) lobi lobilor
vocative lobule lobilor

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lob c

  1. (anatomy) a lobe

Declension

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Declension of lob
nominative genitive
singular indefinite lob lobs
definite loben lobens
plural indefinite lober lobers
definite loberna lobernas

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