quobとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 quabbe, from 古期英語 *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”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kwɒb/
• (General American) IPA: /kwɑb/
• 韻: -ɒb, -ɑb

動詞

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

1. (intransitive, dialectal, rare) To throb; to quiver.
   • 1944, Clark Ashton Smith, Lost Worlds:

     For the gray mass quobbed and quivered, and swelled perpetually

名詞

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.

派生語

• quobby
• quobmire

参照

• “quob”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.