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Lobby vs Sobby - What's the difference?

lobby | sobby |

As a noun lobby

is an entryway or reception area; vestibule; passageway; corridor.

As a verb lobby

is to attempt to influence (a public official or decision-maker) in favor of a specific opinion or cause.

As an adjective sobby is

very sad; inclined to sob.

lobby

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) *(term), from , from (etyl) or (etyl).

Noun

(lobbies)
  • An entryway or reception area; vestibule; passageway; corridor.
    • I had to wait in the lobby for hours before seeing the doctor.
  • That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly.
  • A class or group of people who try to influence public officials; collectively, lobbyists.
    • The influence of the tobacco lobby has decreased considerably in the US.
  • (video games) A virtual area where players can chat and find opponents for a game.
  • (nautical) An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.
  • A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges, trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.
    • Derived terms
    * gun lobby

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (transitive) To attempt to influence (a public official or decision-maker) in favor of a specific opinion or cause.
    • For years, pro-life groups have continued to lobby hard for restrictions on abortion.
  • * 2002 , (Jim Hightower), in
    • The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Schumpeter
    • , title= Cronies and capitols , passage=Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.}}
    Related terms
    * lobbying * lobbyist

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • (informal) scouse (from lobscouse)
  • * My mam cooked us lobby for tea last night.

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    * * * English terms derived from Latin ----

    sobby

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Very sad; inclined to sob
  • *{{quote-book, year=1903, author=George Horace Lorimer, title=Old Gorgon Graham, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=It began, 'Where is my wandering boy to-night?' and by the time she was through I was feeling so mushy and sobby that I put a five instead of a one into the plate by mistake. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1917, author=Sewell Ford, title=Wilt Thou Torchy, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Every piece of furniture, from the threadbare sofa to the rickety center table, seems kind of sad and sobby . }}
  • (by extension) Dripping wet
  • *{{quote-book, year=1882, author=Carlton McCarthy, title=Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Nobody knows who he was; but no matter how wet the leaves, how sobby the twigs, no matter if there was no fire in a mile of the camp, that fellow could start one. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1902, author=Ellen Glasgow, title=The Battle Ground, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The woman served him sullenly, placing some sobby biscuits and a piece of cold bacon on his plate, and pouring out a glass of buttermilk with a vicious thrust of the pitcher. }}

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