moble

English

Etymology

Frequentative mob + -le.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈməʊbəl/

Verb

moble (third-person singular simple present mobles, present participle mobling, simple past and past participle mobled)

  1. (transitive) To muffle or wrap someone's head or face (normally with up).
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
    • 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun
      She was all mobled up at the window, her tawniness flat and dull in this snowlight, and I felt pity.

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Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Occitan mòble), inherited from Latin mobilis (compare French meuble, Spanish mueble). Doublet of mòbil, a borrowing.

Pronunciation

Noun

moble m (plural mobles)

  1. piece of furniture
  2. (heraldry) charge

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