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cobbed

cobbed adjective: broken, cut or trimmed into pieces of a convenient size, or formed into small blocks; cobbled. Also the simple past and past participle of cob.

Adjective

cobbed (comparative more cobbed, superlative most cobbed)

  1. Broken, cut or trimmed into pieces of a convenient size, or formed into small blocks; cobbled.
  2. Remaining on, or taken from the cob, (as in "cobbed corn").
    • After the few times I added cobbed corn to my bait pile, I would find cleaned cobs a long distance from the bait pile, sometimes more than 50 yards away.2009, James Woodsing, Grouse, Deer, and Uncle Willy, page 101
    • I was thinking about you today, remembering all the good times we had when I was little: the picnics at the beach, cobbed corn and hamburgs on the grill, the long talks about the values of sharing and a good night's sleep.2015, Sueann Wells, Motherly Musings
  3. Built of mud cobbles, and sealed with mud or an artificial equivalent.
  4. Crudely or roughly assembled; put together in an improvised way, (as in "cobbed together").
  5. Struck with misfortune (possibly a contraction of clobbered)
  6. (dialectal) Odd, peculiar, strange. (Comparative can be cobb'der and superlative can be cobb'dest).

Also used as

cobbed is also the simple past and past participle of cob.

Forms of cobbed

comparativemore cobbed
superlativemost cobbed

Questions about cobbed

What does cobbed mean?
Cobbed means broken, cut or trimmed into pieces of a convenient size, or formed into small blocks; cobbled.
What part of speech is cobbed?
Cobbed is an adjective.

Words near cobbed in the dictionary

  1. Cobbadah
  2. Cobban
  3. Cobbannah
  4. Cobbans
  5. Cobbe
  6. cobbed
  7. Cobben
  8. cobber
  9. cobber up
  10. Cobberas
  11. cobbered up

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