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Definition: SOB |
SOBNoun1. A dyspneic condition. 2. (obscene) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous. 3. Convulsive gasp made while weeping. Verb1. Weep convulsively; "He was sobbing inconsolably". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "SOB" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SOB | English | State Office Building | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "SOB."
Synonyms: SOBSynonyms: asshole (n), bastard (n), breathlessness (n), cocksucker (n), dickhead (n), mother fucker (n), motherfucker (n), prick (n), shit (n), shortness of breath (n), sobbing (n), son of a bitch (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Lamentation | Noun: lament, lamentation; wail, complaint, plaint, murmur, mutter, grumble, groan, moan, whine, whimper, sob, sigh, suspiration, heaving, deep sigh. |
Cry, weep, sob, greet, blubber, pipe, snivel, bibber, whimper, pule; pipe one's eye; drop tears, shed tears, drop a tear, shed a tear; melt into tears, burst into tears; fondre en larmes; cry oneself blind, cry one's eyes out; yammer. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SOB |
| English words defined with "SOB": Sobbed. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "SOB" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (reindeer), Portuguese (below, beneath, under, underneath). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Write me a sob story. (Scandal Sheet; writing credit: Samuel Fuller; Eugene Ling) | |
Lyrics | And sob for the ones left below? (Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning); performing artist: Alan Jackson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sob o Céu da Bahia (1956) The Sob Sister (1914) His Sob Story (1914) Sob Sisters (1989) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning | But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath! |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Lays of Mystery Imagination and Humour | Carroll, Lewis | Whose icy breast no pity warms, Whose little victims sit in swarms, And slowly sob on lower forms. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Meanwhile a sob was heard in a corner. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Mr Casey, freeing his arms from his holders, suddenly bowed his head on his hands with a sob of pain. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "SOB" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 70.00% of the time. "SOB" is used about 220 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 70% | 154 | 25,326 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 24.55% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.18% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.82% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 0.45% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 220 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "SOB": sob bingly ♦ sob one's heart out ♦ sob out ♦ sob sister ♦ sob story ♦ sob stuff ♦ sob violently. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "SOB": sob-shaken, sob-story. | |
Ending with "SOB": half-sob. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sob | 105 |
sob vicious | 11 |
nyc sob | 10 |
new sob york | 7 |
holster sob | 5 |
sob.com vicious | 5 |
medida moveis sob | 4 |
forum sob | 4 |
sob viscious | 4 |
club sob | 3 |
ny sob | 3 |
sob holsters | 3 |
club night sob | 3 |
s.com sob | 3 |
sob viscous | 2 |
demanda impressão sob | 2 |
sob story | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SOB"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rënkoj (bellow, groan, howl, mewl, moan, wail, whimper, whine), dënes (blubber). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نشج (pule, whimper), تنهد (heave a sigh, moan, sigh, sighing), عاطفي (affectional, emotional, emotive, intimate, mawkish, moving, overwhelming, passional, passionate, rhapsodic, romantic, sentimental, sentimentalist, smoochy, soft, soulful), خنق بعبرة, روى وهو ينشج, شهق (inhale, inspire), بكى (bring out, cry, fret, greet, set off, weep, whine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сподавен плач, ридая (lament, wail, weep), ридание (lament, lamentation, mourning, plaint, wail), хълцане (burp, hiccough, hiccup), плача (blubber, complain, cry, lament, pipe, weep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 嗚' (whimper), ' (glorious, weep), 呜' (Sobbed, sobbing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vzlykat, vzlykání, vzlyk, štkaní, štkát. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | snikken. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | plorsingulti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | همراه باسکسکه وبغض گریه کردن , هق هق , گریه کردن (Cry, Give, Mourn, Weep), گریه (Cry, Greet, Tear), بغض گریه . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | nyyhkytys (sobbing), nyyhkyttää. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sangloter, sanglot, pleurer, étouffer par un sanglot. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schluchzen (hiccup, snivel, sobbing, to snivel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κλαίω σπασμωδικώσ, λυγμόσ (sobbing), αναφιλητό. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ליבב (squeal, ululate, wail, whimper, yowl), ל"תיפח (cry bitterly), לצעוק (cry out, holler, shout, yell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zokogás (sobbing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | sedu-sedan, tersedu-sedu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | singhiozzare (hiccup, snivel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 啜り泣き (sobbing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | すすりなき (sobbing, weeping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 흐느낌 (Whimper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | soutaghey (flutter, leap, moan, moaning), soghal (groan, groaning, moan, moaning, sigh, sobbing, sough, surge, whimper), sogh (groan, moan, sigh, surge, swell, whimper), gluggernee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | obsay soluço (hiccup, singultus), soluçar (hiccup, whimper). (various references) suspina (groan, moan, sigh, suspire), suspin (moan, sigh, suspiration), sughiţa (hiccough, hiccup), sughiţ (hiccough, hiccup), plânge cu sughiţuri, plânge în hohote (blubber, cry away), oftat (complaint, groan, sigh, suspiration, wail), ofta (groan, sigh, sigh for, suspire), hohoti în plâns, hohot de plâns. (various references) рыдать (blubber, sobbed), всхлипывать. (various references) ospag (gasp, pang, sigh), osnadh (a sigh, groan, sigh), acain (complaint, moan, sigh). (various references) zaridati, plakati (blubber, cry, weep), plač (cry, crying, weeping), jecati (blubber, moan), jecanje (moan, sobbing). (various references) sollozar. (various references) snyftning (sobbing), snyfta. (various references) เสียงสะอื้น, สะอื้นสะอื้น. (various references) iç çeke çeke ağlamak, hıçkırmak (have the hiccoughs, have the hiccups, hiccough, hiccup), hıçkırma, hıçkırarak ağlamak, hıçkırıklara boğulmak, hıçkırıklara boğulma, hıçkırık (hiccough, hiccup), hıçkıra hıçkıra ağlamak (cry sobbingly), hıçkıra hıçkıra ağlama. (various references) юumjarmak, horkuldamak (grunt). (various references) схлипування (bawl), ридати (weep), ридання (lachrymals, lament, mourning, wail, weep), говорити, задихаючись від ридання, захлинатися. (various references) truyện thương cảm lý do đưa ra để l m mủi lòng (sob story), b i văn tình cảm sướt mướt (sob-stuff), b i nhạc uỷ mị (sob-stuff). (various references) ubain (howl, moan, wail), beichio (burden, low). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fleo. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SOB": sobbed, sobber, sobbers, sobbing, sobeit, sober, sobered, soberer, soberest, sobering, soberize, soberized, soberizes, soberizing, soberly, soberness, sobernesses, sobers, sobersided, sobersidedness, sobersidednesses, sobersides, sobful, sobrieties, sobriety, sobriquet, sobriquets, sobs. (additional references) | |
Words containing "SOB": chrysoberyl, chrysoberyls, disobedience, disobediences, disobedient, disobediently, disobey, disobeyed, disobeyer, disobeyers, disobeying, disobeys, disoblige, disobliged, disobliges, disobliging, insobrieties, insobriety, isobar, isobare, isobares, isobaric, isobars, isobath, isobaths, isobutane, isobutanes, isobutylene, isobutylenes, prosobranch, prosobranchs, unsober. (additional references) | |
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"SOB" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: csob, eob, esb, Esbo, Gsob, ispbx, osb, Qoub, sab, sabh, sabji, sbm, sbo, scob, seb, Sebc, sebd, Sebi, shob, Shobo, siba, sibh, sibi, sibo, soab, sobb, sobe, soeb, sof, sog, soj, soq, Sorby, sov, soz, spoub, sso, stob, su, suba, subc, subj, subo, subp, sumb, wobb, zbo, zob, zobe, zoob, zub. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SOB" (pronounced sÄ"b) |
| 2 | -Ä" b | blob, Bob, cob, Cobb, glob, gob, hob, job, knob, lob, Miserables, mob, Rob, slob, snob, swab, throb. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bos. | |
| Words within the letters "b-o-s" | |
-1 letter: bo, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-o-s" | |
+1 letter: abos, bios, boas, bobs, bods, bogs, boos, bops, bosh, bosk, boss, bots, bows, boys, bros, cobs, fobs, gobs, hobs, jobs, kobs, lobs, mobs, nobs, obes, obis, orbs, robs, slob, snob, sobs, sorb, stob, swob, sybo, yobs. | |
+2 letters: ambos, basso, besom, besot, bison, blobs, blocs, blots, blows, boars, boast, boats, bocks, bodes, boffs, bogus, boils, bolas, bolds, boles, bolls, bolos, bolts, bolus, bombs, bonds, bones, bongs, bonks, bonus, boobs, books, booms, boons, boors, boost, boots, boras, bores, borts, bosks, bosky, bosom, boson, bossy, bosun, botas, botts, bouse, bousy, bouts, bowls, bowse, boxes, boyos, bozos, brios, broos, brose, brosy, brows, buoys, cobbs, combs, ebons, forbs, globs, gobos, hobos, knobs, kobos, lobes, lobos, obese, obeys, obias, obits, oboes, obols, robes, sabot, sambo, slobs, snobs, sober, sorbs, stobs, swobs, tombs, umbos, wombs. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 4F 42 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- -... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001111 01000010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S O B |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004F 0042 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)534936 |
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