zob

See also: ZOB and zob.

English

Etymology

Claimed by Swedish scholar Jan Ivarsson (quoted in Green's Dictionary of Slang) to derive from French zob (“dick, cock”), itself from Arabic زُبّ (zubb).

Noun

zob (plural zobs)

1. (US, slang, derogatory, dated) A good-for-nothing person.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:worthless person

   • 1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXXV, in Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC, section III, pages 415–416:

     And the same thing goes for that crowd of crabs and snobs Down East, and next time you hear some zob from Yahooville-on-the-Hudson chewing the rag and bulling and trying to get your goat tell him that no two-fisted enterprising Westerner would have New York for a gift!

See also

• zod

 

Anagrams

• BZO, Boz

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zobъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈzop]
• Rhymes: -op

Noun

zob m inan

1. bird food

   Dali jsme ptákům do krmítka ptačí zob. ― We put some bird food into a feeder.

2. (rare, dated) beak

   Synonym: zobák

Declension

Declension of zob (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	zob	zoby
genitive	zobu	zobů
dative	zobu	zobům
accusative	zob	zoby
vocative	zobe	zoby
locative	zobu	zobech
instrumental	zobem	zoby

Derived terms

adjectives

• křivozobý
• ploskozobý

 

Further reading

• “zob”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “zob”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “zob”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic زُبّ (zubb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zɔb/

Noun

zob m (plural zobs)

1. (slang) dick, cock (penis)

Further reading

• “zob”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zobь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zôːb/

Noun

zȏb f (Cyrillic spelling зо̑б)

1. oat

   Synonym: ovas

Declension

Declension of zob

	singular	plural
nominative	zob	zobi
genitive	zobi	zobi
dative	zobi	zobima
accusative	zob	zobi
vocative	zobi	zobi
locative	zobi	zobima
instrumental	zoblju	zobima

Further reading

• “zob”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zóːp/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zǫbъ.

Noun

zọ̑b m inan

1. tooth; cog

   modrostni zob ― wisdom tooth

   mlečni zobje ― baby teeth

   Zob me boli. ― I have a toothache.

   podarjenemu konju se ne gleda v zobe ― don't look a gift horse in the mouth

   oko za oko, zob za zob ― an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth

Declension

First masculine declension (hard o-stem, inanimate) , long mixed accent, ending -je in nominative plural, null ending in genitive dual/plural
nom. sing.	zọ̑b
gen. sing.	zọ̑ba, zobȃ
	singular	dual	plural
nominative imenovȃlnik	zọ̑b	zobȃ	zobjẹ̑
genitive rodȋlnik	zọ̑ba, zobȃ	zọ̑b	zọ̑b
dative dajȃlnik	zọ̑bu	zobẹ̑ma	zobẹ̑m
accusative tožȋlnik	zọ̑b	zobȃ	zobẹ̑
locative mẹ̑stnik	zọ̑bu	zobẹ̑h	zobẹ̑h
instrumental orọ̑dnik	zọ̑bom	zobẹ̑ma	zobmí
(vocative) (ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)	zọ̑b	zobȃ	zobjẹ̑

Derived terms

• zobač
• zobalo
• zobar
• zobast
• zobat
• zobati
• zobčast
• zobčati
• zobček
• zobec
• zobek
• zoben
• zobina
• zobinast
• zobiti
• zobnik
• zobovina
• zobovje

 

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zobь.

Noun

zọ̑b f

1. oats; fodder (food for horses and other animals)

Declension

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Feminine, i-stem, long mixed accent
nom. sing.	zób
gen. sing.	zobí
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	zób	zobí	zobí
genitive (rodȋlnik)	zobí	zobí	zobí
dative (dajȃlnik)	zóbi	zobéma	zobém
accusative (tožȋlnik)	zób	zobí	zobí
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	zóbi	zobéh	zobéh
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	zobjó	zobéma	zobmí

Further reading

• “zob”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “zob”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references