lob

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lob"

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: lŏb, IPA^(key): /lɒb/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɒb

Etymology 1

First attested late 16th c. in the sense "allow or cause to dangle, hang," from sense 2.

Verb

lob (third-person singular simple present lobs, present participle lobbing, simple past and past participle lobbed)

1. (transitive) To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arch.

   The guard lobbed a pass just over the defender.

   The tennis player lobbed the ball, which was a costly mistake.

2. (transitive, colloquial) To throw.

   Synonyms: fling, hurl; see also Thesaurus:throw

   • 2019 April 6, Caleb Quinley, “Thailand: Anti-military party leader faces sedition charges”, in Al Jazeera‎^[1], Doha: Al Jazeera, retrieved 2019-04-06:

     In the months leading up to the election, government representatives took up a cybercrime case against Thanathorn for criticising the government on a Facebook Live video... They also lobbed more legal cases at his party for allegedly spreading false information.

   • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:

     I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand.

3. (transitive, colloquial) To put, place.

   Synonyms: lay, lay down, put down, set down, deposit

   Lob the bacon in the pot.

4. (transitive, sports) To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.
   • 2011 January 15, Nabil Hassan, “Wigan 1 - 1 Fulham”, in BBC‎^[2]:

     Wigan took the lead when Hugo Rodallega lobbed David Stockdale from close range having earlier headed against the post.

5. (obsolete, transitive) To let fall heavily or lazily.
   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

     And their poor jades / Lob down their heads.

Translations

to throw or hit a ball high into the air

• Catalan: bombar (ca), fer un globus (ca)
• Czech: lobovat (cs) impf
• Dutch: lobben (nl)
• Finnish: heittää kaaripallo, lyödä kaaripallo, iskeä kaaripallo, potkaista kaaripallo
• French: lancer haut, lancer en chandelle, lobber (fr), faire un lob
• German: lupfen (de), lobben (tennis)
• Italian: tirare un pallonetto
• Macedonian: у́дри (údri), ло́бува (lóbuva)
• Romanian: loba (ro)
• Serbo-Croatian: šutnuti (sh)
• Spanish: vaselina (es) f
• Swedish: lobba (sv)

Noun

lob (plural lobs)

2. (ball games) A pass or stroke which arches high into the air.

   The guard launched a desperate lob over the outstretched arms of the defender.

   • 2011 February 12, Nabil Hassan, “Blackburn 0 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC‎^[3]:

     Peter Lovenkrands went close for the Magpies, hitting the bar with a fine lob after he had been played in by the excellent Jose Enrique on the left.

Derived terms

• lob jam
• lob wedge

 

Translations

high-arching pass or stroke

• Catalan: globus (ca) m
• Finnish: kaari (fi), kaaripallo
• French: lob (fr) m
• German: Lob (de) m
• Italian: pallonetto (it) m
• Macedonian: лоб m (lob), у́дар m (údar)
• Swedish: lobb

Etymology 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”).

Noun

lob (plural lobs)

1. A lump.
   • 1875, M.L. Kenny, The fortunes of Maurice Cronin‎^[4], page 126:

     And, moreover, I had no sooner set my eyes on the keys, than I remembered where there was a lob of money lying in Purcell's safe, that I —

2. (obsolete) A country bumpkin; a yokel.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:country bumpkin

   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone: Our queen and all her elves come here anon.

   • 1694, Peter Anthony Motteux, The Fourth Book, translation of original by Rabelais, Chapter XLVII:

     THE country lob trudged home very much concerned and thoughtful, you may swear; insomuch that his good woman, seeing him thus look moping, weened that something had been stolen from him at market […]

3. A clumsy person.
4. The person who comes last in a race.
5. A lob-worm.

Translations

lump — see lump

Etymology 3

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."

Noun

lob (plural lobs)

1. A fish, the European pollock.

Etymology 4

Blend of long +‎ bob.

Noun

lob (plural lobs)

1.  A long bob haircut.

References

• Nall, John Greaves (2006): Nall's Glossary of East Anglian Dialect

See also

• lob-on (unknown etymology)

Anagrams

• LBO, Bol., OBL, bol

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɔp/
• Hyphenation: lob
• Rhymes: -ɔp

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek λοβός (lobós).

Noun

lob f or m (plural lobben, diminutive lobbetje n)

1. lobe, lobule

Derived terms

• kiemlob
• zaadlob

 

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English lob.

Noun

lob m (plural lobs, diminutive lobje n)

1. lob (arching pass of a ball)

   Synonym: boogbal

Related terms

• lobben

 

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

lob

1. inflection of lobben:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English lob.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɔb/

• Audio:

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Noun

lob m (plural lobs)

1. (tennis) lob

Further reading

• “lob”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• bol

Hungarian

Etymology

Partly back-formation from lobog, lobban, partly splitting from the obsolete lobb (“flame”). First attested in 1829.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlob]
• Hyphenation: lob
• Rhymes: -ob

Noun

lob

1. (medicine) inflammation

   Synonym: gyulladás

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	lob	lobok
accusative	lobot	lobokat
dative	lobnak	loboknak
instrumental	lobbal	lobokkal
causal-final	lobért	lobokért
translative	lobbá	lobokká
terminative	lobig	lobokig
essive-formal	lobként	lobokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	lobban	lobokban
superessive	lobon	lobokon
adessive	lobnál	loboknál
illative	lobba	lobokba
sublative	lobra	lobokra
allative	lobhoz	lobokhoz
elative	lobból	lobokból
delative	lobról	lobokról
ablative	lobtól	loboktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	lobé	loboké
non-attributive possessive - plural	lobéi	lobokéi

Possessive forms of lob
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	lobom	lobjaim
2nd person sing.	lobod	lobjaid
3rd person sing.	lobja	lobjai
1st person plural	lobunk	lobjaink
2nd person plural	lobotok	lobjaitok
3rd person plural	lobjuk	lobjaik

Derived terms

Compound words

• agylob
• lobgát
• toroklob

 

Further reading

• lob in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English lob.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔb/
• Rhymes: -ɔb
• Hyphenation: lòb

Noun

lob m (invariable)

1. lob (in ball games)

   Synonym: pallonetto

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English lobbe, variant of loppe.

Noun

lob

1. Alternative form of loppe (“spider”)

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *lob.

Noun

lob n

1. praise

Descendants

• German: Lob

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French lobe.

Noun

lob m (plural lobi)

1. lobe

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	lob	lobul		lobi	lobii
genitive-dative	lob	lobului		lobi	lobilor
vocative	lobule			lobilor

Swedish

Noun

lob c

1. (anatomy) a lobe

Declension

Declension of lob

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	lob	lobs
	definite	loben	lobens
plural	indefinite	lober	lobers
	definite	loberna	lobernas

Derived terms

• hjärnlob
• hjässlob
• leverlob
• lunglob
• pannlob

References

• lob in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• lob in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• lob in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)