Noun: sob
Sample Sentences
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“My husband, alas! whom I now (sob, sob) mourn,
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A short time since (sob) to this grave (sob) was borne;
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And (sob) he lies buried in this (sob, sob) grave.” [1874, George Carter Stent, The Jade Chaplet in Twenty-four Beads, page 9:]
Nouns inflected like sob
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English sobben, perhaps from Middle Low German sabben (“to drool, slobber, salivate”). Cognate with West Frisian sabje, sobje (“to suck”), Dutch zabben, sabbelen (“to suck”), zabberen (“to drool”), German Low German sabbeln, severn (“to drool”), German sabbern (“to drool, slobber”), Norwegian sabbe (“to spill, drop, make a mess”). Compare also Old English sēofian (“to lament”), German saufen (“to drink, swig”). See: Middle English Nouns '
sobben', Old English Nouns '
sēofian'.