Definition of Bobbing

1. Verb. (present participle of bob) ¹

2. Noun. The motion of something that bobs. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bobbing

1. bob [v] - See also: bob

Medical Definition of Bobbing

1. An up-and-down movement. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bobbing

bobbared
bobbaring
bobbars
bobbasheely
bobber
bobberies
bobbers
bobbery
bobbies
bobbin
bobbin lace
bobbinet
bobbinets
bobbing (current term)
bobbings
bobbinless
bobbinlike
bobbinwork
bobbish
bobbitted
bobbitting
bobbitts
bobble
bobble hat
bobbled
bobblehead

Literary usage of Bobbing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. 1861 to 1865, by an Old Johnnie by James Dinkins (1897)
"He and his staff do things up brown, As they go bobbing around Then there is the general's ... A home and pretty wife are his, While he goes bobbing around. ..."

2. Book of the Black Bass, Comprising Its Complete Scientific and Life History by James Alexander Henshall (1881)
"SKITTERING AND bobbing. " Then, if you get a grasshopper, ... No reel is used, for, like "bobbing," this mode of fishing is only successful in grassy and ..."

3. The Sea-fisherman: Comprising the Chief Methods of Hook and Line Fishing in by James C. Wilcocks (1884)
"bobbing is usually practised from a boat, and in the following manner : Procure forty or fifty large ... Lead and Clot of Worms for bobbing from a boat. ..."

4. Wild Animals I Have Known: And 200 Drawings by Ernest Thompson Seton (1912)
"When the white cotton cushion that she always carried to sit on went bobbing away through the woods, of course Rag ran his hardest to keep up. ..."

5. The Memoirs of the Gemini Generals: Personal Anecdotes, Sporting Adventures by Osborn Wilkinson, Johnson Wilkinson (1896)
"In reply to my assertion that the process of bobbing is unavoidable in some, perhaps the majority of men, Colonel Maude might say that a man who funked and ..."

6. Japan at First Hand: Her Islands, Their People, the Picturesque, the Real by Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke (1918)
"... ride—A procession of bobbing lanterns—The tie-toe of clogs—The kago or litter—The travelling chairs—The trolley cars—Crowding —Bicycles for business ..."

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