cobhouse
noun
1
: a toy house of corncobs or sticks laid in parallel pairs piled on one another each at right angles to the preceding pair
2
: a flimsy unstable structure or arrangement
a cobhouse of lies ready to fall
Word History
Etymology
cob entry 3 (corncob) + house
- interbonding
- interborough
- interboroughs
- interbourse
- interbrains
- interbranch
- interbred
- interbreed
- interbreeding
- interbreedings
- interbreeds
- intercalary
- intercalary meristem
- intercalate
- intercalated
- intercalates
- intercalating
- intercalation
- intercalations
- intercalative
- intercalibration
- intercalibrations
- intercameral
- intercampus
- intercardinal