zob

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).^[1]

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!

• BZO, Boz

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zobъ.

• IPA^(key): [ˈzop]
• Rhymes: -op

zob m inan

1. bird food

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

2. (informal) beak

   Synonym: zobák

• “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)

Borrowed from Arabic زُبّ (zubb).

• IPA^(key): /zɔb/

zob m (plural zobs)

1. (slang) dick, cock (penis)

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

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zobь.

• IPA^(key): /zôːb/

zȏb f (Cyrillic spelling зо̑б)

1. oat

   Synonym: ovas

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

• IPA^(key): /zóːp/

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zǫbъ.

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

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

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zobь.

zọ̑b f

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

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

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

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