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Dobbed vs Dybbed - What's the difference?

dobbed | dybbed |

As verbs the difference between dobbed and dybbed

is that dobbed is (dob) while dybbed is (dyb).

dobbed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (dob)

    • DOB

    English

    Initialism

    (Initialism) (head)
  • date of birth
  • Daughters of Bilitis. The first organized and successful Lesbian liberation organization in the United States.

    • Anagrams

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    dybbed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dyb)

    • dyb

    English

    Alternative forms

    * dib

    Verb

  • (intransitive, sometimes, humorous) In the scouting movement, to chant dyb , meaning "do your best" (to follow the scouting laws).
  • * 2009 , Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs (page 54)
    • I used to get through the dibbing and dobbing all right but during the howling I usually rolled over backwards.
  • * 2009 , Wendy Holden, Beautiful People
    • 'I'm a scout,' she smiled at him. The boy, in his turn, stared at Sam. He'd heard somewhere that scouting had got more trendy lately, that it was more snowboarding and surfing than dib-dib-dibbing and doing old ladies' gardens.
  • * 2009 , Justin Pollard, The Interesting Bits
    • Why were there 212 fatalities at the first boy scout camp? There wasn't much dybbing and dobbing at Robert Baden-Powell's first scout camp as the camp in question was in Mafeking and took place during a particularly nasty siege
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