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quob

Pronunciation: /kwɒb/

The English word “quob” has 5 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To throb; to quiver.

noun

  1. A marshy spot; bog, quagmire; quicksand.
  2. A heap or mess; a bad condition.
  3. An unfirm layer of fat.
  4. A throb or palpitation.

Etymology

From Middle English quabbe, from Old English *cwabbe, from Proto-West Germanic *kwabbā (“soggy ground”). Compare Middle Low German quobbe (“swampy ground”), Middle High German quabbe (“marshy ground, unstable moorland”), whence Modern German Quabbe (“large bulge”). For the verb, compare German Low German quabbeln, quobbeln (“to tremble, vibrate”), German quabbeln (“to move back and forth as a…

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