6 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bob \Bob\, v. i.
1. To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up
and down to play loosely against anything ``Bobbing and
courtesying.'' --Thackeray.
2. To angle with a bob. See {Bob}, n., 2 & 3.
He ne'er had learned the art to bob For anything but
eels. --Saxe.
{To bob at an apple}, {cherry}, etc to attempt to bite or
seize with the mouth an apple, cherry, or other round
fruit, while it is swinging from a string or floating in a
tug of water.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bob \Bob\, n. [An onomatopoetic word expressing quick, jerky
motion; OE bob bunch, bobben to strike, mock, deceive. Cf
Prov. Eng. bob, n., a ball, an engine beam, bunch, blast,
trick, taunt, scoff; as a v., to dance, to courtesy, to
disappoint, OF bober to mock.]
1. Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short
abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as
the bob at the end of a kite's tail.
In jewels dressed and at each ear a bob. --Dryden.
2. A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling,
as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait.
Or yellow bobs, turned up before the plow, Are
chiefest baits, with cork and lead enow. --Lauson.
3. A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing
line to show when a fish is biting; a float.
4. The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also the ball or
weight at the end of a plumb line
5. A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used
in polishing spoons, etc
6. A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as a bob of the
head.
7. (Steam Engine) A working beam.
8. A knot or short curl of hair; also a bob wig.
A plain brown bob he wore. --Shenstone.
9. A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.
10. The refrain of a song.
To bed, to bed, will be the bob of the song.
--L'Estrange.
11. A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
12. A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick.
He that a fool doth very wisely hit, Doth very
foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless
of the bob. --Shak.
13. A shilling. [Slang, Eng.] --Dickens.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bob \Bob\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bobbed}; p. pr & vb n.
{Bobbing}.] [OE. bobben. See {Bob}, n.]
1. To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a
thing) with a bob. ``He bobbed his head.'' --W. Irving.
2. To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
If any man happened by long sitting to sleep . . .
he was suddenly bobbed on the face by the servants.
--Elyot.
3. To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.
Gold and jewels that I bobbed from him --Shak.
4. To mock or delude; to cheat.
To play her pranks, and bob the fool, The shrewish
wife began. --Turbervile.
5. To cut short; as to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
bob
n 1: a former monetary unit in Great Britain [syn: {British
shilling}, {shilling}]
2: a hair style for women and children; a short haircut all
around
3: a hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string
4: a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing
line [syn: {bobber}, {cork}, {bobfloat}]
5: a short or shortened tail of certain animals [syn: {bobtail},
{dock}]
6: a short abrupt inclination (as of the head); "he gave me a
short bob of acknowledgement"
v 1: move up and down repeatedly; "her rucksack bobbed gently on
her back"
2: ride a bobsled; "The boys bobbed down the hill screaming
with pleasure" [syn: {bobsled}]
3: remove or shorten the tail of an animal [syn: {dock}, {tail}]
4: make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a
sign of respect; "She curtsied when she shook the Queen's
hand" [syn: {curtsy}]
5: cut hair in the style of a bob; "Bernice bobs her hair these
days!"
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
bob n. At Demon Internet (http://www.demon.net/), all tech
support personnel are called "Bob". (Female support personnel have
an option on "Bobette"). This has nothing to do with Bob the divine
drilling-equipment salesman of the {Church of the SubGenius}. Nor is
it acronymized from "Brother Of {BOFH}", though all parties agree it
could have been Rather, it was triggered by an unusually large draft
of new tech-support people in 1995. It was observed that there would
be much duplication of names To ease the confusion, it was decided
that all support techs would henceforth be known as "Bob", and identity
badges were created labelled "Bob 1" and "Bob 2". ("No, we never got
any further" reports a witness).
The reason for Bob" rather than anything else is due to a
{luser} calling and asking to speak to "Bob", despite the fact that no
Bob" was currently working for Tech Support. Since we all know "the
customer is always right", it was decided that there had to be at least
one Bob" on duty at all times, just in case.
This sillyness inexorably snowballed. Shift leaders and managers
began to refer to their groups of "bobs". Whole ranks of support machines
were set up (and still exist in the DNS as of 1999) as bob1 through
bobN. Then came alt.tech-support.recovery, and it was filled with Demon
support personnel. They all referred to themselves, and to others as
`bob', and after a while it caught on There is now a
Bob Code (http://bob.bob.bofh.org/~giolla/bobcode.html)
describing the Bob nature.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
Bob
David Betz. A tiny object-oriented language.
{(ftp://ftp.mv.com/pub/ddj/packages/bob15.arc)}
[Dr Dobbs J, Sep 1991, p.26].
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