Talk:cobbing
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Rfv-sense: haughty; purse-proud - supposedly in a 1608 dictionary, which shouldn't really interest us MooreDoor (talk) 07:32, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
- Appears in the OED defined as "playing the 'cob'" (with cob defined as "[a] great man, big man, leading man"). Only two quotations are given, one from Thomas Nashe's Lenten Stuffe (1599) ("Of them all cobbing countrey chuffes which make their bellies and their bagges theyr Gods are called riche Cobbes."), and the other from Withals's Dictionary (1608) ("Amongst those notable, famous, notorious, cobbing fooles."). — SGconlaw (talk) 21:17, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
- Then I also expect an (obsolete) verb to cob meaning “to play the ‘cob’“. (Not listed in the OED, though.) In Withals it is a use, occurring in a translation of the Latin phrase inter praecipuos stultos. --Lambiam 17:28, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
RFV-failed. We need at least one more citation, and that assumes we accept the cite from Withal's Dictionary, although we don't know where that quote is from. Kiwima (talk) 19:33, 13 October 2021 (UTC)