Dob

Quick meaning: Dob is a verb meaning A small amount of something, especially paste.

Meaning

A small amount of something, especially paste.

More Meanings

1. Initialism of date of birth.
2. (intransitive, sometimes humorous) In the scouting movement, to chant dob to indicate that one will do one's best to follow the scouting laws.
3. (slang, ambitransitive, Northern Ireland) To play truant.
4. (slang, intransitive, chiefly Australia, New Zealand) To report a person to someone in authority for a wrongdoing. (For transitive forms see dob in, dob on.)

Example Sentences

Put a dob of butter on the potato, please.

I used to get through the dibbing and dobbing all right but during the howling I usually rolled over backwards.

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.

Word Forms

• dobs
• dobbing
• dobbed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dnd, new, dime, dack, drib, dish.

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