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- noun Pieces of
bread soaked in hotmilk used as a comfort food for children during illness
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Examples
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In winter we were given "pobs" for supper: these were pieces of broken white home-baked bread put in a beaker with a spoonful of golden syrup and then filled with warm milk.
Family life 2011
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So Peg made his pobs (6) an 'then futtered (7) abaat,
Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems Frederic William Moorman 1895
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He was ladling the pobs into the child's mouth, and scooping the overflow from her chin.
The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Hall Caine 1892
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In winter we were given "pobs" for supper: these were pieces of broken white home-baked bread put in a beaker with a spoonful of golden syrup and then filled with warm milk.
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