lobとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

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

動詞

lob (三人称単数 現在形 lobs, 現在分詞 lobbing, 過去形および過去分詞形 lobbed)

1. (transitive) To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arch.

   The guard lobbed a pass just over the defender.

   The tennis player lobbed the ball, which was a costly mistake.

2. (transitive, colloquial) To throw.
   • 2019 April 6, Quinley, Caleb, “Thailand: Anti-military party leader faces sedition charges”, in Al Jazeera‎^[1], Doha: Al Jazeera, retrieved 2019-04-06:

     In the months leading up to the election, government representatives took up a cybercrime case against Thanathorn for criticising the government on a Facebook Live video... They also lobbed more legal cases at his party for allegedly spreading false information.

   • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:

     I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand.

3. (transitive, colloquial) To put, place.

   Lob the bacon in the pot.

4. (transitive, sports) To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.
   • 2011 January 15, Nabil Hassan, “Wigan 1 - 1 Fulham”, in BBC‎^[2]:

     Wigan took the lead when Hugo Rodallega lobbed David Stockdale from close range having earlier headed against the post.

5. (obsolete, transitive) To let fall heavily or lazily.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

     And their poor jades / Lob down their heads.

名詞

lob (複数形 lobs)

1. (ball, sports) A pass or stroke which arches high into the air.

   The guard launched a desperate lob over the outstretched arms of the defender.

   • 2011 February 12, Nabil Hassan, “Blackburn 0 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC‎^[3]:

     Peter Lovenkrands went close for the Magpies, hitting the bar with a fine lob after he had been played in by the excellent Jose Enrique on the left.

派生語

語源 2

From Middle English lob (“a lazy lout, bundle of clothing”), from 古期英語 *lobb, *lobbe word for lumpish or unwieldy things, from Proto-Germanic *lubbǭ (“that which hangs または dangles”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-, *lep- (“to peel, skin”). Compare Danish lobbes (“bumpkin, clown”), 古期英語 loppe (“spider”) (in the sense of something that hangs または dangles). Possibly influenced or borrowed through Welsh llob (“lump”).

名詞

lob (複数形 lobs)

1. A lump.
   • 1875, M.L. Kenny, The fortunes of Maurice Cronin‎^[4], page 126:

     And, moreover, I had no sooner set my eyes on the keys, than I remembered where there was a lob of money lying in Purcell's safe, that I —

2. (obsolete) A country bumpkin; a yokel.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II Scene I:

     Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone: Our queen and all her elves come here anon.

   • 1694, Peter Anthony Motteux, The Fourth Book, translation of original by Rabelais, Chapter XLVII:

     THE country lob trudged home very much concerned and thoughtful, you may swear; insomuch that his good woman, seeing him thus look moping, weened that something had been stolen from him at market […]

3. A clumsy person.
4. The person who comes last in a race.
5. A lob-worm.

語源 3

From Middle English lob (“pollock”), cognate with Middle Dutch and Middle Low German lobbe (“a type of small plump または stocky fish, cod”), Danish lubbe, from Old Norse lubba, ultimately from sense 2 in the sense of "clumsy, heavily or lumpily hanging."

名詞

lob (複数形 lobs)

1. A fish, the European pollock.

動詞

lob (三人称単数 現在形 lobs, 現在分詞 lobbing, 過去形および過去分詞形 lobbed)

1. (mining) To cob (chip off unwanted pieces of stone).

参照

• Nall, John Greaves (2006): Nall's Glossary of East Anglian Dialect

参考

• lob-on (unknown etymology)

アナグラム

• Bol., LBO, bol