lob

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 lŏb

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A pass or stroke which arcs high into the air.
    — The guard launched a desperate lob over the outstretched arms of the defender.
  2. A lump.
    — 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 —
  3. A fish, the European pollock.
  4. A long bob haircut.
  5. A form of fraud in which a person asks for change in a shop, palms some of the coins, and tells the shopkeeper that he has not given them enough. UK,obsolete,slang
    — Some are acute for the Lob; which is, going into a Shop to have a Guinea or Pistole chang'd, and the Change being given, the bringer of the Gold telling it over, Palms Two or Three Shillings, then returning the Money, says there wants so much, which the Shop-keeper telling over again, and finding short, very innocently crys 'tis true, and makes up the Summ.
  6. A country bumpkin; a yokel. obsolete
    — Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone: Our queen and all her elves come here anon.
  7. A clumsy person.
  8. The person who comes last in a race.
  9. A lob-worm.
动词 v.
  1. To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arc. transitive
    — The guard lobbed a pass just over the defender.
  2. To throw. colloquial,transitive
    — 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.
  3. To put, place. colloquial,transitive
    — Lob the bacon in the pot.
  4. To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game. transitive
    — Wigan took the lead when Hugo Rodallega lobbed David Stockdale from close range having earlier headed against the post.
  5. To let fall heavily or lazily. obsolete,transitive
    — And their poor jades / Lob down their heads.
  6. To reach or arrive at (a place). Australia,informal,intransitive
    — So with great trepidation we lobbed at the theatre and were escorted to our seats[.]

词形变化

lobs present,singular,third-person lobbing participle,present lobbed participle,past lobbed past lobs plural lobs plural lobs plural lobs plural the lob canonical

词汇关系

衍生词
hoblob

词源

词源 1
First attested late 16th c. in the sense "allow or cause to dangle, hang," from sense 2.
词源 2
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”).
词源 3
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."
词源 4
Blend of long + bob.
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