Dictionary entry

Fob

Pronunciation: /fɒb/

Pronunciation

/fɒb/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) (က) အိတ်ဆောင်နာရီကြိုး။ (ခ) အဆင်တန်ဆာအဖြစ် ကြိုးတပ်၍ အိတ်၌ ဆွဲချိတ် သည့် အလှဆင် ဖု၊ တံဆိပ်၊ နာရီ စသည်။ a fob watch. (v) နှပ်လွှတ်သည်။

Definition

fob 1 /fɒb / n (က) အိတ္ေဆာင္နာရီႀကိဳး။ (ခ) အဆင္တန္ဆာအျဖစ္ ႀကိဳးတပ္၍ အိတ္၌ ဆြဲခ်ိတ္ သည့္ အလွဆင္ ဖု၊ တံဆိပ္၊ နာရီ စသည္။ a fob watch. fob 2 /fɒb / v ( -bb- ) ႏွပ္လႊတ္သည္။ ❏ fob sb off (with sth) [ PHRV ] ( esp Brit ) ႏွပ္ခ်သည္။ ႏြားမရႊံ႕ပိတ္ေရာင္းသည္။ I won't be fobbed off this time—I'm determined to say what I think. ❍ You can't fob an expert off with cheap imitations. ❏ fob sth off on/onto sb [ PHRV ] ႏြားမ ရႊံ႕ပိတ္ေရာင္းသည္။ Don't try fobbing off last year's goods on me!

Examples

  1. I’m tired of being fobbed off.
  2. [fob someone off with something] : The politicians on the panel just fob off questioners with banal responses.
  3. [fob someone off with something] : Customers complain they’re being fobbed off with an inferior model.