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lobber

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lob⋅ber

  [lob-er]
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–noun Inland North.
clabber.
Also called lobbered milk  [lob-erd] .

Origin:
b. clabber and lopper 2

Regional variation note:
See clabber.

lob

1  [lob] verb, lobbed, lob⋅bing, noun
–verb (used with object)
1. Tennis. to hit (a ball) in a high arc to the back of the opponent's court.
2. to fire (a missile, as a shell) in a high trajectory so that it drops onto a target.
3. Cricket. to bowl (the ball) with a slow underhand motion.
4. to throw (something) slowly in an arc.
–verb (used without object)
5. Tennis. to lob a ball.
–noun
6. Tennis. a ball hit in a high arc to the back of the opponent's court.
7. Cricket. a ball bowled with a slow underhand motion.
8. British Dialect. a slow, heavy, dull-witted person.
Origin:
1325–75; in earlier sense, to behave like a lob (ME lobbe, lob bumpkin, clumsy person, orig. pollack; OE: spider; basic sense, something pendulous); c. MLG, MD lobbe dangling part, stockfish, etc.

Related forms:
lobber, noun
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lob   (lŏb)   
v.   lobbed, lob·bing, lobs

v.   tr.
To hit, throw, or propel in a high arc: lob a beach ball; lob a tennis shot over an opponent's head.
v.   intr.

  1. To hit a ball in a high arc.

  2. To move heavily or clumsily.

n.  

  1. A ball hit, thrown, or propelled in a high arc.

  2. Slang A clumsy dull person; a lout.


[From Middle English, pollack, lout, probably of Low German origin.]
lob'ber n.
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Word Origin & History

lob  (v.)
"send up in a slow, high arc," 1824 (implied in lobbing), but the word existed 16c. in various senses suggesting "heavy, pendant, or floppy things," and is probably ult. from an unrecorded O.E. word; cf. E.Fris. lobbe "hanging lump of flesh," Du. lob "hanging lip, ruffle, hanging sleeve," Dan. lobbes "clown, bumpkin."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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