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ob-

prefix

Etymology

Clipping of obligatory.

  1. derived from ob-

Definitions

  1. Against

    Against; facing; a combining prefix found in verbs of Latin origin.

  2. Of a reversed shape.

  3. Obligatory

    Obligatory; prepended to the name of a topic being mentioned to avoid accusations of being off-topic.

    • ObGoth: Uh, well, it's like this you see, <searches in random file o' obgoth things> anyone out there got the new CoX album on Tess? If so which album is it *most* like?
    • Aren't Newcastle's chairman Sunderland supporters? (From the way they acted?) Erm...obspeccy? Tynesoft, eh? What happened to them?

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for ob-. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA