Tob
/tɒb/noun
A Scots or northern English word meaning a tub or large vessel.
Did you know?Tob is a documented dialectal variant of tub, showing how English words could shift vowels dramatically across regions before spelling became standardized.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
Proto-Germanic
*tubbō
“A vessel or container, probably a rounded wooden one”
Middle Dutch
Middle Dutch
tobbe
“A tub or large vessel”
Middle English
Middle English
tubbe
“A tub or cask”
15th–16th Century
English
tub
“A large open vessel used for holding liquids or other materials”
Modern Scots
Scots
tob
“A tub or large vessel”