† bobbedadj.1
Obsolete.
Struck with the fist; ? swollen with blows.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > other injuries
crippid1382
brokena1400
bobbed1573
winged1789
self-inflicted1885
vaccine-damaged1973
Tasered1976
1573 T. Tusser Points Huswifrie (new ed.) f. 27v, in Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) What bobbed lips, what Ierks, what nipps! [but ? blobbed.]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
bobbedadj.2
/bɒbd/ a. Furnished with a bob n.1 (in various senses); formed into a bob; cut short (as a horse's tail).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [adjective] > docked
docked1408
curtailed1591
bobbed1658
bob1709
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [adjective] > having particular type of tail
docked1408
stug-tailed1575
curtal1576
curtailed1591
bushya1609
bobbed1658
undocked1677
flisk1680
rat-tailed1684
strunted1688
bob1709
cocktailed1763
switched1769
cocked1775
nick-tailed1840
1658 J. Robinson Endoxa iii. 130 Frogs..are..metamorphosed into another shape..from tailed to bobbed.
1675 London Gaz. No. 999/4 A white Mane shorn, white Tail bob'd.
1696 London Gaz. No. 3201/4 A Bright Bay Nag..with..a shorn Main and bob'd Tail.
1768 G. Washington Diary (1925) I. 256 Hunting again, and catchd a fox with a bobd Tail and cut Ears.
1894 Outing 24 193/1 There is nothing more hideous than a bobbed jib.
1897 Outing 29 464/2 Small boys strutting about in tall beavers with bobbed-off coats, looking..like tailless sparrows.
b. Of a woman's or girl's hair: cut short and even all round (see bob v.5 2). Hence ,
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [adjective] > cut short
shornc1050
polleda1325
ydoddeda1400
rounded?a1439
nottedc1440
gallows-rounded1567
stubbed1627
well-cropped1805
well-shaven1842
bobbed1918
Eton-cropped1925
crew-cropped1938
crew cut1940
urchin cut1951
1918 Home Chat 3 Aug. 106/1 There is quite a craze for ‘bobbed’ hair, for big and little girls alike.
1920 Punch 18 Aug. 135 Are your tresses luxuriant or ‘bobbed’?
1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey i. viii. 63 Her bobbed black hair, crinkly towards the ends.
Compounds
bobbed-hair adj. = bobbed-haired adj.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > people with styles of hair > [adjective] > cut or shaved
nottOE
shavenc1330
rounded?a1439
clipped1483
poll-shorn1556
notched1597
nott-pated1598
well-shaved1600
shaveling1607
nott-headed1612
cropped-eared1641
round-headed1641
polled1653
crop-eared1680
lop-eared1798
shaved1837
crop-headed1842
county-cropped1849
cropped1856
colled1877
crop-haired1879
prison-cropped1882
bob-haired1923
bobbed-haired1928
bobbed-hair1953
slap-headed1994
1953 S. Kauffmann Philanderer ix. 141 She was a young, bright, snub-nosed, bobbed-hair cartoon character.
bobbed-haired adj. with bobbed hair.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > people with styles of hair > [adjective] > cut or shaved
nottOE
shavenc1330
rounded?a1439
clipped1483
poll-shorn1556
notched1597
nott-pated1598
well-shaved1600
shaveling1607
nott-headed1612
cropped-eared1641
round-headed1641
polled1653
crop-eared1680
lop-eared1798
shaved1837
crop-headed1842
county-cropped1849
cropped1856
colled1877
crop-haired1879
prison-cropped1882
bob-haired1923
bobbed-haired1928
bobbed-hair1953
slap-headed1994
1928 Punch 30 May 589/3 The new bobbed-haired lady cat-burglar.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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