(obsolete) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
(obsolete) The refrain of a song.
(obsolete) A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.
Esimerkit
He that a fool doth very wisely hit, / Doth very foolishly, although he smart, / Not to seem senseless of the bob.
Changes: This release adds 2 new effects (bobs and unlimited bobs), has a GFX directory for sharing graphics, adds utility functions to the common code...
IMHO, youd be better doing other things with the CPU and letting the blitter draw bobs, esp on a machine with fast ram.
The bob list determines the drawing priority...
Spot me a few bob, Robert.
[...] there was a sound of barking and a great hefty dog of the Hound of the Baskervilles type came galloping at me, obviously intent on mayhem, [... and] I was just commending my soul to God and thinking that this was where my new flannel trousers got about thirty bobs' worth of value bitten out of them [...]
‘’Ere y’are, the best rig-out you ever ’ad. A tosheroon [half a crown] for the coat, two ’ogs for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a ’og for the cap and scarf. That’s seven bob.’
One of the bottlenosed fraternity it was went by the name of James Wought alias Saphiro alias Spark and Spiro, put an ad in the papers saying he'd give a passage to Canada for twenty bob.
I got my hair bobbed. How do you like it?
The ball, which we had thought lost, suddenly bobbed up out of the water.
To bed, to bed, will be the bob of the song.
A plain brown bob he wore.
Ecod! I have got them. Here they are. My cousin Con's necklaces, bobs and all.
Or yellow bobs turn'd up before the plough / Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enough.
a bob of the head
He was suddenly bobbed on the face by the servants.
bob one's head (= to nod)
I bobbed my head under water and saw the goldfish.