cobbed
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]cobbed (comparative more cobbed, superlative most cobbed)
- Broken, cut or trimmed into pieces of a convenient size, or formed into small blocks; cobbled.
- Remaining on, or taken from the cob, (as in "cobbed corn").
- 2009, James Woodsing, Grouse, Deer, and Uncle Willy, page 101:
- After the few times I added cobbed corn to my bait pile, I would find cleaned cobs a long distance from the bait pile, sometimes more than 50 yards away.
- 2015, Sueann Wells, Motherly Musings:
- I was thinking about you today, remembering all the good times we had when I was little: the picnics at the beach, cobbed corn and hamburgs on the grill, the long talks about the values of sharing and a good night's sleep.
- 2019, NIIR Board of Consultants & Engineers, The Complete Technology Book on Processing, Dehydration, Canning, Preservation of Fruits & Vegetables, page 516:
- A fluidized freezing process can be used for both cut corn and cobbed corn.
- Built of mud cobbles, and sealed with mud or an artificial equivalent.
- Crudely or roughly assembled; put together in an improvised way, (as in "cobbed together").
- Struck with misfortune (possibly a contraction of clobbered)
- (dialect) Odd, peculiar, strange. (Comparative can be cobb'der and superlative can be cobb'dest).
Verb
[edit]cobbed
- simple past and past participle of cob