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fob with the elk’s tooth on it.

Polish translation: Kieszonkowy zegarek z dewizką ozdobiony zębem losia

15:32 Oct 27, 2005
English to Polish translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
English term or phrase: fob with the elk’s tooth on it.
Remember that nice watch my father left me when he died?
Nice watch, remember? The fob with the elk’s tooth on it.
Ivona McCormick
United States
Local time: 21:13
Polish translation:Kieszonkowy zegarek z dewizką ozdobiony zębem losia
Explanation:
Czy tu jest jakas zagwozdka językowa, którą przegapiłam?

Skoro to zegarek męski, to pewnie można go tez nazwac "cebulą"

Oxford Eng. D.:
fob (___), n.2 Also 7, 9 Sc. fab, 8 fobb.
[of unknown origin; cf. HG. dial. fuppe pocket, fuppen, einfuppen to pocket stealthily; a Ger. word fupsack is cited by Skinner.
If the word meant originally a secret pocket, it may be connected with fob v.]
1. A small pocket formerly made in the waistband of the breeches and used for carrying a watch, money, or other valuables.
1653 Brome Crt. Beggar ii. i. Wks. 1873 I. i. 212 My Fob has been fubd to day of six pieces.
1667 St. Papers, Dom. CXCI. No. 63. ii, The right side pockett..and the small pockett or fobb.
1711 Addison Spectator No. 77 _1, I saw him..squirt away his watch..into the Thames, and put up the Pebble, he had before found, in his Fob.
1751 Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) iii. lxxxiii. 294 The..young gentleman, with an hand in each fob, stood whistling an opera-tune.
1819 Moore Tom Crib’s Mem. 6 Whether diddling your subjects, and gutting their fobs.
1838 Dickens Nich. Nick. iii, Mr. Nickleby replaced his watch in his fob.
b. nonce-use. The contents of the fob, ‘cash’.
?c1680 Royal Resolutions in Marvell’s Wks. (Grosart) I. 431 When plate was at pawn, and fob at an ebb.
2. U.S. = fob-chain.
1889 M Hatton-Ripley From Flag to Flag xxiv. 211 The tempting fob that hung from his pocket.
1893 Farmer Slang, Fob..a watch chain or ribbon, with buckle and seals, worn hanging from the fob.
3. A trimming resembling a fob-chain.
1894 Daily News 22 June 6/6 Skirt trimmed on the hips with fobs of bright rose-pink velvet, two on either side.
4. attrib., as fob-pocket, -watch;
fob-chain, the chain attached to a watch carried in the fob.
1885 H. C. McCook Tenants Old Farm 121 Beneath it [his waistcoat] a goodly *fobchain protrudes.
1837 Dickens Pickw. xxviii, With..a gold watch in his *fob pocket.
1884 S. Dowell Tax. in Eng. III. iii. iii. §11 (1888) 273 A *fob watch is in existence that belonged to Oliver Cromwell.


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Barbara Gadomska
Local time: 04:13
Grading comment
Dzieki za losia.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



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4 +2Kieszonkowy zegarek z dewizką ozdobiony zębem losia
Barbara Gadomska


  

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fob with the elk’s tooth on it.
Kieszonkowy zegarek z dewizką ozdobiony zębem losia


Explanation:
Czy tu jest jakas zagwozdka językowa, którą przegapiłam?

Skoro to zegarek męski, to pewnie można go tez nazwac "cebulą"

Oxford Eng. D.:
fob (___), n.2 Also 7, 9 Sc. fab, 8 fobb.
[of unknown origin; cf. HG. dial. fuppe pocket, fuppen, einfuppen to pocket stealthily; a Ger. word fupsack is cited by Skinner.
If the word meant originally a secret pocket, it may be connected with fob v.]
1. A small pocket formerly made in the waistband of the breeches and used for carrying a watch, money, or other valuables.
1653 Brome Crt. Beggar ii. i. Wks. 1873 I. i. 212 My Fob has been fubd to day of six pieces.
1667 St. Papers, Dom. CXCI. No. 63. ii, The right side pockett..and the small pockett or fobb.
1711 Addison Spectator No. 77 _1, I saw him..squirt away his watch..into the Thames, and put up the Pebble, he had before found, in his Fob.
1751 Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) iii. lxxxiii. 294 The..young gentleman, with an hand in each fob, stood whistling an opera-tune.
1819 Moore Tom Crib’s Mem. 6 Whether diddling your subjects, and gutting their fobs.
1838 Dickens Nich. Nick. iii, Mr. Nickleby replaced his watch in his fob.
b. nonce-use. The contents of the fob, ‘cash’.
?c1680 Royal Resolutions in Marvell’s Wks. (Grosart) I. 431 When plate was at pawn, and fob at an ebb.
2. U.S. = fob-chain.
1889 M Hatton-Ripley From Flag to Flag xxiv. 211 The tempting fob that hung from his pocket.
1893 Farmer Slang, Fob..a watch chain or ribbon, with buckle and seals, worn hanging from the fob.
3. A trimming resembling a fob-chain.
1894 Daily News 22 June 6/6 Skirt trimmed on the hips with fobs of bright rose-pink velvet, two on either side.
4. attrib., as fob-pocket, -watch;
fob-chain, the chain attached to a watch carried in the fob.
1885 H. C. McCook Tenants Old Farm 121 Beneath it [his waistcoat] a goodly *fobchain protrudes.
1837 Dickens Pickw. xxviii, With..a gold watch in his *fob pocket.
1884 S. Dowell Tax. in Eng. III. iii. iii. §11 (1888) 273 A *fob watch is in existence that belonged to Oliver Cromwell.




Barbara Gadomska
Local time: 04:13
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 20
Grading comment
Dzieki za losia.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  PAS: na potrzeby tekstu starczy, aczkolwiek amerykański "elk" (cervus elephus) to jeleń szlachetny, a łoś od zawsze był moose, dictionaries be damned! ;-)/// tak - nawet na sensownych stronach nazwy łacińskie bywają sprzeczne
15 mins
  -> To prawda, zdaje sie, że elk to wapiti, ale w takim tekscie głupio by to zabrzmiało MSZ :-) Dzieki anyway. Nawiasem mówiąc, według OxED elk to także: Alces malchis, Cervus canadensis i wymarły Cervus megaceros
agree  Janina Nowrot
2 hrs
  -> dzięki
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