lob

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

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."

Blend of long + bob.

32 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: globus — high-arcing pass or stroke
• Finnish: kaari — high-arcing pass or stroke
• Finnish: kaaripallo — high-arcing pass or stroke
• French: lob — high-arcing pass or stroke
• German: Lob — high-arcing pass or stroke
• Italian: pallonetto — high-arcing pass or stroke
• Macedonian: лоб (lob) — high-arcing pass or stroke
• Macedonian: у́дар (údar) — high-arcing pass or stroke
• Russian: свеча (sveča) — high-arcing pass or stroke
• Spanish: globo — high-arcing pass or stroke
• Swedish: lobb — high-arcing pass or stroke
• French: LOB — database large object
• Catalan: bombar — to throw or hit a ball high into the air
• Catalan: fer un globus — to throw or hit a ball high into the air
• Czech: lobovat — to throw or hit a ball high into the air
• Dutch: lobben — to throw or hit a ball high into the air
• Finnish: heittää kaaripallo — to throw or hit a ball high into the air
• Finnish: lyödä kaaripallo — to throw or hit a ball high into the air
• Finnish: iskeä kaaripallo — to throw or hit a ball high into the air
• Finnish: potkaista kaaripallo — to throw or hit a ball high into the air
• French: lancer haut — to throw or hit a ball high into the air
• French: lancer en chandelle — to throw or hit a ball high into the air
• French: lobber — to throw or hit a ball high into the air
• French: faire un lob — to throw or hit a ball high into the air
• German: lupfen — to throw or hit a ball high into the air
• German: lobben — to throw or hit a ball high into the air
• Italian: tirare un pallonetto — to throw or hit a ball high into the air
• Macedonian: у́дри (údri) — to throw or hit a ball high into the air
• Macedonian: ло́бува (lóbuva) — to throw or hit a ball high into the air
• Romanian: loba — to throw or hit a ball high into the air
• Serbo-Croatian: šutnuti — to throw or hit a ball high into the air
• Swedish: lobba — to throw or hit a ball high into the air