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quob

/kwɒb/US/kwɑb/

quob verb: to throb; to quiver.

Verb

quob (third-person singular simple present quobs, present participle quobbing, simple past and past participle quobbed)

  1. (dialectal, intransitive, rare) To throb; to quiver.
    • For the gray mass quobbed and quivered, and swelled perpetually1944, Clark Ashton Smith, Lost Worlds

Noun

quob (plural quobs)

  1. (dialectal) A marshy spot; bog, quagmire; quicksand.
  2. (dialectal) A heap or mess; a bad condition.
  3. (dialectal) An unfirm layer of fat.
  4. (dialectal) A throb or palpitation.

Forms of quob

Verb
third-person singular presentquobs
present participlequobbing
past participlequobbed
pastquobbed
alternative formquab
Noun
pluralquobs

Origin of quob

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”).

Words formed from quob

Words that rhyme with quob

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Questions about quob

What does quob mean?
Quob means to throb; to quiver.
What part of speech is quob?
Quob can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce quob?
Quob is pronounced /kwɒb/ (UK).
What is the past tense of quob?
The past tense of quob is quobbed.

Words near quob in the dictionary

  1. quoad
  2. quoad hoc
  3. quoad hunc
  4. quoad omnia
  5. quoad sacra
  6. quob
  7. quobbed
  8. quobbing
  9. quobby
  10. quobs
  11. quoc ngu

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