dob
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(Australia, New Zealand, intransitive, slang)(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.)
- 2.
(Northern Ireland, ambitransitive, slang)To play truant.
- 3.
(humorous, intransitive, sometimes)(intransitive, sometimes humorous) In the scouting movement, to chant dob to indicate that one will do one's best to follow the scouting laws.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
A small amount of something, especially paste.
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. […] ’
- 2.
(abbreviation, alt of, initialism)Initialism of date of birth.
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Nguồn gốc từ
. Possibly from Middle English dobben.