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单词 cobbing
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cobbingn.

/ˈkɒbɪŋ/
Etymology: < cob v.1 or cob n.1
1. Nautical. A way of punishing sailors: see quots.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > with flat piece of wood or cobbing
cobkey1582
cobbing1769
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Cobbing..is performed by striking the offender a certain number of times on the breech with a flat piece of wood called the cobbing-board.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Cobbing..consists in bastonadoing the offender on the posteriors with a cobbing stick, or pipe staff.
1844 Peter Parley's Ann. 291 Jack was accordingly ordered to have a ‘cobbing’.
2. Mining, etc. (See quots.)
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1870 Eng. Mech. 11 Feb. 518/1 Crushing machinery.. to crush the old bricks as ‘cobbing’.
1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 348/2 Cobbing..broken pieces of old bricks and bottoms of furnaces that have absorbed copper.
1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall Cobbing-hammer, a miner's tool.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 120 Cobbing (Cornw.), breaking ore to sort out its better portions.
3. ? = Topping, polling: see quot. 1863 dialect.
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1863 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. (Gloss.) 722/1 Cobbing (Essex), cutting the tops of pollards.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

cobbingadj.

Etymology: < cob n.1 1.
Obsolete.
Playing the ‘cob’.
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the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [adjective]
taunt?a1534
cocket1537
fastuous?1591
cobbing1599
whalebone1602
airy1606
fastigious1625
flatuous1630
high and mighty1633
vapouring1647
flatulent1658
hoity-toity1690
jackanapish1696
superior1711
penseful1788
uppish1789
pensy1790
stuck-up1812
glorified1821
toploftical1823
pretentious1832
sophomoric1837
highty-tighty1847
snippy1848
jumped-up1852
set-up1856
toplofty1859
cock-aloft1861
high-tone1864
high-toned1866
pretensivea1868
fancy-pants1870
hunched1870
snotty1870
head-in-air1880
uppity1880
jackanapsian1881
airified1882
sidey1898
posh1914
upstage1918
snooty1919
high-hatted1924
hincty1924
snot-nosed1941
posho1989
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 59 Of them all cobbing countrey chuffes which make their bellies and their bagges theyr Gods are called riche Cobbes.
1608 W. Clerk Withals's Dict. Eng. & Lat. 391 Amongst those notable, famous, notorious, cobbing fooles.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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