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Vinony

SOB

adjective

  1. medical acronym meaning “short of breath”
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noun

No English definition recorded for this entry.

L15727 on Wikidata ↗

verb

  1. cry, shed tears
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /sɒb/ / /sɑb/

noun

Etymology: From Middle English sobben, perhaps from Middle Low German sabben (“to drool, slobber, salivate”). Cognate with West Frisian sabje, sobje (“to suck”), Dutch zabben, sabbelen (“to suck”), zabberen (“to drool”), German Low German sabbeln, severn (“to drool”), German sabbern (“to drool, slobber”), Norwegian sabbe (“to spill, drop, make a mess”). Compare also Old English sēofian (“to lament”), German saufen (“to drink, swig”).

  1. A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath.
  2. The sound of sob.

    ““My husband, alas! whom I now (sob, sob) mourn, A short time since (sob) to this grave (sob) was borne; And (sob) he lies buried in this (sob, sob) grave.””

verb

Etymology: See sop.

  1. To soak.

    “the Tree, being sobbed and wet, ſwells the Wood”