An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

To BOB, BAB, v. n. To dance, S.
Herd.

BOB, s. Gust, blast.
V. [Bub].

BOB, s.
1. A bunch; used as synon. with [cow], S.
Priests of Peblis.
2. The same word, pronounced bab, is used for a bundle of flowers, a nosegay.

S. Fr. bube, a bunch; Isl. bobbe, a knot.

BOB, s. A mark, a but, S.; either q. a small bunch set up as a mark, or, from the sense of the E. v., something to strike at.

BOB, s. A taunt, a scoff, S. B.

Teut. babb-en, to prate; Isl. komenn i bobba, os correptum, at bobsa, babare (to bark,) canum vox est. Su. G. babe, sermo inconditus.

BOBBY, s. A grandfather, S. B.
Ross.

BOBBYN, s. The seed-pod of birch, Loth.

Fr. bubon, a great bunch.