quob

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kwɒb/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /kwɑb/
• Rhymes: -ɒb, -ɑb

Verb

quob (third-person singular simple present quobs, present participle quobbing, simple past and past participle quobbed)

1. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To throb; to quiver.
   • 1944, Clark Ashton Smith, Lost Worlds:

     For the gray mass quobbed and quivered, and swelled perpetually

References

• “quob”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.