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mobbie, mobee|ˈmɒbɪ, ˈməʊbɪ|
Also 7–8 mobby, 7 mobbi, (mabby).
[a. Carib mabi batata, drink made from batatas.]
1. In the West Indies:
a. A spirituous liquor made from the batata or sweet potato.
1638T. Verney in V. Papers (1853) 194 This as we call mobby is only potatoes boyled, and then pressed as hard as they can till all the juce is gon out of the root into fayre water, and after three houres this is good drink. 1750G. Hughes Barbados 34 note, Mobby is a Drink made with pounded Potatoes, and Water fermented with Sugar or Molasses. 1826H. N. Coleridge West Indies (1832) 40 Their suppers being a few potatoes for meat, and water or mobbie to drink.
b. (See quot. 1859.)
1833Mrs. Carmichael Dom. Mann. W. Ind. II. xiv. 68 Ginger beer, mobee, and orgeat are always plentiful [in the market]. 1859Bartlett Dict. Amer., Mobee, a fermented liquor made by the negroes in the West Indies, prepared with sugar, ginger, and snake-root.
2. In America: The expressed juice of apples and peaches, used in the distillation of apple and peach brandy; also the brandy itself. mobby punch (see quot. 1705).
1705R. Beverley Virginia iv. ii. xv. §74 (1722) 254 Mobby Punch, made either of Rum from the Caribbee Islands, or Brandy distill'd from their Apples and Peaches. 1860Worcester, Mobby, the liquid or juice first expressed from apples and peaches, and afterwards distilled to make apple or peach brandy. |