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DANISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

hob.

crowd, multitude (a large amount of people or animals)

3 characters1 syllables approx.Dansk language

Meaning & usage

noun/hoːˀb/[ˈhoˀb̥]

  1. crowd, multitude (a large amount of people or animals)

    common-gender

  2. common people

    common-gender · derogatory

  3. heap

    common-gender

  4. heap

    common-gender
Where this word comes from

From Old Danish hob, from Middle Low German hōp, from Old Saxon hōp, from Proto-West Germanic *haup (“heap”), cognate with English heap. Late Old Norse hópr and Swedish hop are also borrowed from Low German.

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