Definitions
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- adjective Broken, cut or
trimmed into pieces of aconvenient size, or formed into small blocks;cobbled . - adjective Remaining on, or taken from the
cob , (as in "cobbed corn"). - adjective Built of mud
cobbles , and sealed with mud or anartificial equivalent . - adjective
Crudely or roughlyassembled ; put together in animprovised way, (as in "cobbed together"). - adjective Struck with misfortune (possibly a contraction of
clobbered ) - adjective dialect Odd, peculiar, strange. (Comparative can be cobb'der and superlative can be cobb'dest).
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cob .
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Examples
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Since moving away I think this is the first time we've ever bought cobbed corn.
Barbecues, corn on the cob and other stuff Michele 2007
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There is no direct quote from Obama stating such a thing, its an entirely cobbed-together article.
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My father, a broad-cobbed ear of northern Iowa corn, raised me right, teaching me to never abandon my roots.
Tara Stiles: High Fructose Corn Syrup: A Sweet Surprise For America? 2009
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There is no direct quote from Obama stating such a thing, its an entirely cobbed-together article.
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I have never cobbed so quickly or with such determination.
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Maize can also be shelled (de-cobbed) and placed into bags and then into crocks, jars or tins.
Chapter 7 1982
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Now as we came into the heart of the target area, they cobbed their light maneuverable craft and spit up from our blind bellies.
Thud Ridge Broughton, Jack, 1925- 1969
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Evening clothes were part of Cecil's training, and he kept to them rigidly, putting on each night for dinner what Murty O'Toole, having seen in wonder, referred to as "a quare little cobbed-shwaller-tail jacket."
Mates at Billabong 1911
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I never saw any personal good to be had out of a fight, but it was better to fight than to be cobbed.
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I never saw any personal good to be had out of a fight, but it was better to fight than to be cobbed.
The Autobiography of a Quack and the Case of George Dedlow 1871
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