quob

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UK/kwɒb/US/kwɑb/

verb

To throb; to quiver.

OriginMiddle English quabbe ← Old English *cwabbe ← Proto-West Germanic *kwabbā →
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Meanings

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

present singular third person quobs · participle present quobbing · participle past quobbed · past quobbed · alternative quab

  1. dialectalintransitiverareTo throb; to quiver.

    For the gray mass quobbed and quivered, and swelled perpetually

    1944, Clark Ashton Smith, Lost Worlds
nounquob (plural quobs)

plural quobs · alternative quab

  1. dialectalA marshy spot; bog, quagmire; quicksand.
  2. dialectalA heap or mess; a bad condition.
  3. dialectalAn unfirm layer of fat.
  4. dialectalA throb or palpitation.

Origin

  1. Proto-West Germanic*kwabbā“soggy ground”
  2. Old English*cwabbe
  3. Middle Englishquabbe
  4. Englishquob

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”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with quob

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APA

quob. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quob

MLA

“quob.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quob. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “quob,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quob.

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