frob
To perform a task that is clear to the speaker but too complex or tedious to be…To perform a task that is clear to the speaker but too complex or tedious to be explained, so that outside help is not helpful.
Значение
значений: 3(редкое, сленг, переходный)To manipulate in some ill-defined way; to tweak or mess about with.
(сленг)To perform a task that is clear to the speaker but too complex or tedious to be explained, so that outside help is not helpful.
Why don't you go get lunch? I need to frob with this thing for about 30 minutes and then we'll be good to go.
To transform and obscure in a trivial fashion with memfrob(3).
Происхождение
Clipping of frobnicate, from frobnitz, coined circa 1958 by David R. Sawyer of the MIT TecClipping of frobnicate, from frobnitz, coined circa 1958 by David R. Sawyer of the MIT Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC). Year of origin uncertain, and could be 1958–1981: frob is not listed in the TMRC dictionaries of 1959 or 1960, and is first listed in the Jargon File (1981 edition), so it may date from the 1960s or 1970s. Possibly variant of or influenced by frotsus (“a protruding arm or trunnion”), which is listed in TMRC 1959 and 1960.
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Формы
frobs, frobbing, frobbed, frobbedОднокоренные
связанных слов: 5Уроки к слову
уроков: 3- A1Present Simple: настоящее простое время — Потому что это глагол
- A1Past Simple: правильные глаголы — Потому что у него есть форма прошедшего времени
- A2Present Perfect: введение — Потому что у него есть причастие прошедшего времени