lob

lob · verb, noun¹

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

lob · noun²

1. Welsh · derived fromllob“lump”
2. Proto-Indo-European · inherited from*lewbʰ-
3. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*lubbǭ“that which hangs or dangles”
4. Old English · inherited from*lobb
5. Middle English · inherited fromlob“a lazy lout, bundle of clothing”
6. English todaylob

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”).

lob · noun³

1. Old Norse · derived fromlubba
2. Middle English · inherited fromlob“pollock”
3. English todaylob

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."

lob · noun⁴

Blend of long + bob.

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