Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete variant of mabby.
- noun The liquid or juice expressed from apples or peaches, for distillation in the manufacture of apple- or peach-brandy.
- noun The liquor made from such juice, a kind of rum. See
mobee .
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Examples
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As for the event not being "mobby," Bailey acknowledged, "there were a lot of people standing and waiting, so I have a feeling quite a few people were in on the surprise."
The Seattle Times 2010
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Turns out that mobby is in the eye of the beholder.
Rick Horowitz: "Mob" Rule? It All Depends Rick Horowitz 2011
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In the United States, the majority of fruits were used for cider, perry or mobby peach brandy.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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In the United States, the majority of fruits were used for cider, perry or mobby peach brandy.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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In the United States, the majority of fruits were used for cider, perry or mobby peach brandy.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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This long Business Week article on the role of cutting-edge IT in the US military touches on more than one smart mobby technology.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » The Network Is The Battlefield 2003
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Something smart-mobby seems to be happening in Kenya.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Kenya: Where Social Networks Meet Mobile Phones 2003
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This CNET article does a good job explaining what it is, and what it has to do with smart mobby stuff.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » The Mathematics of Recommendation? 2003
flannagan commented on the word mobby
An alcoholic drink made from sweet potatoes.
July 31, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word mobby
Usage on perry, where it says it was brewed from pears, and also:
"William Cabell's Amherst County, Virginia plantation fermented 3,000 gallons of cider and fifty hogsheads (at least 2,400 gallons) of peach mobby annually."
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 50
June 6, 2010