sob

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sɒb/
• (US) enPR: säb, IPA^(key): /sɑb/

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• Rhymes: -ɒb

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sob (plural sobs)

1. A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath.
2. (onomatopoeia) sound of sob
   • 1874, George Carter Stent, The Jade Chaplet in Twenty-four Beads:

     “My husband, alas! whom I now (sob, sob) mourn,
     A short time since (sob) to this grave (sob) was borne;
     And (sob) he lies buried in this (sob, sob) grave.”

• sobby
• sob story
• sob stuff

sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)

1. (intransitive) to weep with convulsive gasps.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Dryden

     She sighed, she sobbed, and, furious with despair, / She rent her garments, and she tore her hair.

2. (transitive) to say (something) while sobbing.

   "He doesn't love me!" she sobbed.

• See also Thesaurus:weep

See sop.

sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)

1. To soak.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Mortimer to this entry?)

• BOS, BSO, Bos., OSB, Obs, bos, obs

• IPA^(key): /sɔp/

sob m

1. reindeer (an Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer)

• IPA^(key): /sob/
• Hyphenation: sob

sob

1. (neologism, nonstandard) down, downwards (direction to the center of the Earth)
   • 1993, Jorge Camacho, La Majstro kaj Martinelli‎, Iltis Saarbrücken:

     Ni saltu sob antaŭ ol venos fruemaj promenantoj.

     Let's jump down before the early promenaders come.

• malsupren (“down, downwards”)

• supren (“up, upwards”)
• (neologism, nonstandard) sor (“up, upwards”)

From Old Portuguese sob, so, su, from Latin sub, from Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upo (“under, below”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsob/
• Hyphenation: sob

sob

1. under

• sobre

sob m (Cyrillic spelling соб)

1. reindeer

• irvas/ирвас

• IPA^(key): /sɔʔm̥/

sob

1. early morning

sob

1. of early morning

• Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

sob (plural sobs)

1. soap