different between dogs vs dobs

English

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA^(key): /d??z/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d??z/
• (US, Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /d??z/

Noun

dogs

1. plural of dog

Noun

dogs pl (plural only)

1. (slang, US) Feet, from rhyming slang dog's meat. [from early 20th c.]

   My dogs are tired. Let's get a taxi.

2. (usually with the) A greyhound racing event; the sport of greyhound racing.

   I lost money at the dogs last night.

3. (nautical) Fasteners securing a watertight hatch.

Derived terms

• dogs bark
• gone to the dogs

Verb

dogs

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dog

Anagrams

• Gods, gods

Volapük

Noun

dogs

1. nominative plural of dog

English

Verb

dobs

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dob

Anagrams

• BSOD, bods

Latvian

Etymology

From earlier *dobus, from Proto-Baltic *duob-, from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewb- (“deep”). In Latvian, former u-stem adjectives were assimilated into other classes; *dobus gave rise to both an o-stem and a yo-stem variant which later on became independent words, dobs and dobjš, with different semantic nuances (compare also, e.g., plats and plašs, or ass and ašs). Cognates include Lithuanian dubùs (“deep, hollow”), Lithuanian dauba (“hollow place”), Proto-Slavic *dup(?)lo, *dup(?)lo (“hole, hollow”) (Russian, Ukrainian ?????? (dupló), Belarusian ????? (dupljó), Bulgarian ?????? (dúplo), Polish dziup?o (“cavity, pit”), Gothic ???????????????????? (diups, “deep”) (< *deupa), German tief, English deep.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [duôbs]

Adjective

dobs (definite dobais, comparative dob?ks, superlative visdob?kais, adverb dobi)

1. hollow (empty inside)

Usage notes

In general, dobs is more concrete (“hollow cylinder”), while dobjš is more abstract or metaphorical (“hollow voice”).

Declension

Synonyms

• (of sounds): dobjš, truls

Derived terms

• dobums

References