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hob

Pronunciation: /hoːˀb/

“hob” is a Danish word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

  1. crowd, multitude (a large amount of people or animals)
  2. common people
  3. heap

Etymology

From Old Danish hob, from Middle Low German hōp, from Old Saxon hōp, from Proto-West Germanic *haup (“heap”), cognate with English heap. Late Old Norse hópr and Swedish hop are also borrowed from Low German.

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