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.)

ΚΠ

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.

ΚΠ

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’.

ΘΚΠ

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).

单词	cobbing
释义	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.) ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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’. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1769adj.1599
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