moble
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈməʊbəl/
Verb
moble (third-person singular simple present mobles, present participle mobling, simple past and past participle mobled)
- (transitive) To muffle or wrap someone's head or face (normally with up).
- 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun:
- She was all mobled up at the window, her tawniness flat and dull in this snowlight, and I felt pity.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- But who, O who, had seen the mobled Queen.
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Old Catalan moble, from Latin mobilem, used in juridical contexts to refer to movable possessions. Compare Occitan mòble, French meuble, Spanish mueble. Doublet of mòbil, a borrowing from Latin.
Pronunciation
Noun
moble m (plural mobles)
Derived terms
Related terms
Adjective
moble m or f (masculine and feminine plural mobles)
Further reading
- “moble”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “moble”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
- “moble” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “moble” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.