dyb

English

Alternative forms

• dib

Etymology

Short for do your best. dyb (or dib) and dob were used as abbreviated forms of do your best and do our best in certain Scout chants.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪb/
• Rhymes: -ɪb
• Homophone: dib

Verb

dyb (third-person singular simple present dybs, present participle dybbing, simple past and past participle dybbed)

1. (intransitive, sometimes humorous, scouting) In the scouting movement, to chant dyb, meaning "do your best" (to follow the scouting laws).
   • 2009, Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs, page 54:

     I used to get through the dibbing and dobbing all right but during the howling I usually rolled over backwards.

   • 2009, Wendy Holden, Beautiful People:

     'I'm a scout,' she smiled at him. The boy, in his turn, stared at Sam. He'd heard somewhere that scouting had got more trendy lately, that it was more snowboarding and surfing than dib-dib-dibbing and doing old ladies' gardens.

   • 2009, Justin Pollard, The Interesting Bits:

     Why were there 212 fatalities at the first boy scout camp? There wasn't much dybbing and dobbing at Robert Baden-Powell's first scout camp as the camp in question was in Mafeking and took place during a particularly nasty siege […]

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse djúpr, from Proto-Germanic *deupaz, cognate with English deep and German tief.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈd̥yˀb̥]

Adjective

dyb (neuter dybt, plural and definite singular attributive dybe)

1. deep
2. profound

Inflection

Inflection of dyb

	positive	comparative	superlative
indefinite common singular	dyb	dybere	dybest2
indefinite neuter singular	dybt	dybere	dybest2
plural	dybe	dybere	dybest2
definite attributive1	dybe	dybere	dybeste

¹ When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,
the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
² The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Noun

dyb n (singular definite dybet, plural indefinite dyb)

1. deep, depth
2. abyss

Inflection

Declension of dyb

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	dyb	dybet	dyb	dybene
genitive	dybs	dybets	dybs	dybenes

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɘp/
• Rhymes: -ɘp
• Syllabification: dyb

Verb

dyb

1. second-person singular imperative of dybać