dob

FREQ #45467

发音

US /dɑb/
AU
UK /dɒb/

词形变化

dobs 复数 dobs 三单 dobbing 现在分词 dobbed 过去式 dobbed 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A small amount of something, especially paste.

    Put a dob of butter on the potato, please.

    1903, Rudyard Kipling, The Tabu Tale, in Just So Stories (in the U.S. Scribner edition, but omitted from most British editions), ‘Consequence will be, O Tegumai,’ said the Head Chief, ‘that we will make them understand it with sticks and stinging-nettles and dobs of mud; and if that doesn't teach them, we'll draw fine, freehand Tribal patterns on their backs with the cutty edges of mussel-shells. […] ’

  2. 1.

    Initialism of date of birth.

v.
  1. 1.

    To report a person to someone in authority for a wrongdoing. (For transitive forms see dob in, dob on.)

    澳大利亚 新西兰 不及物 俚语
  2. 2.

    To play truant.

    及物/不及物 俚语
  3. 1.

    In the scouting movement, to chant dob to indicate that one will do one's best to follow the scouting laws.

    幽默 不及物

相关短语

dob in dob on

词源

Probably variation of dab.

来源：wiktionary