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Definition of Cobbs
1. cobb [n] - See also: cobb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cobbs
Literary usage of Cobbs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All Year Round" by Charles Dickens (1868)
"The boy looked on at the watering of the flowers for a little while, and then
said, "I shall be very glad indeed to go, cobbs,—Norah's going. ..."
2. The Great English Short-story Writers by William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson (1910)
""I am glad of that, cobbs, because I like you, you know, ... "A person could do
a great deal with such a sum of money as that—couldn'ta person, cobbs? ..."
3. Letters to Washington, and Accompanying Papers by George Washington, Stanislaus Murray Hamilton (1898)
"FROM COLONELS TABB AND cobbs.1 AMELIA COUNTY June I” 1756 SIR We have this day
... Samuel cobbs, first of York, afterwards of Amelia County, married Edith ..."
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