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Dyb vs Dob - What's the difference?

dyb | dob |

In sometimes|humorous|lang=en terms the difference between dyb and dob

is that dyb is (intransitive|sometimes|humorous) in the scouting movement, to chant dyb , meaning "do your best" (to follow the scouting laws) while dob is (intransitive|sometimes|humorous) in the scouting movement, to chant dob to indicate that one will do one's best to follow the scouting laws.

As verbs the difference between dyb and dob

is that dyb is (intransitive|sometimes|humorous) in the scouting movement, to chant dyb , meaning "do your best" (to follow the scouting laws) while dob is to report (a person) to someone in authority for a wrongdoing or dob can be (intransitive|sometimes|humorous) in the scouting movement, to chant dob to indicate that one will do one's best to follow the scouting laws.

As a noun dob is

a small amount of something, especially paste.

As an initialism dob is

date of birth.

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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    dob

    English

    Initialism

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