noun
Meaning 1
A marshy spot; bog, quagmire; quicksand.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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Standard Lemma guide
quob
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /kwɒb/
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General-American: /kwɑb/
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noun
Meaning 2
A heap or mess; a bad condition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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noun
Meaning 3
An unfirm layer of fat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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noun
Meaning 4
A throb or palpitation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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verb
Meaning 5
To throb; to quiver.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, intransitive, rare
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History
Etymology
From Middle English quabbe, from Old English *cwabbe, from Proto-West Germanic *kwabbā (“soggy ground”). Compare Middle Low German quobbe (“swampy ground”), Middle High German quabbe (“marshy ground, unstable moorland”), whence Modern German Quabbe (“large bulge”). For the verb, compare German Low German quabbeln, quobbeln (“to tremble, vibrate”), German quabbeln (“to move back and forth as a squishy mass, wobble, jiggle”).