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cob
noun- a mate, a friend AUSTRALIA
Shortening of COBBER - “You watch it, cobs. You don’t wanna clew up as cox’n of a pram.” “She’ll be apples.” — J.E. MacDonnell, Don’t Gimme the Ships, p. 38, 1960
- You weren’t actually married, of course. Not me, cob. She was keen enough, though. — Robin Muir, Word for Word, p. 254, 1960
- The cobs weren’t expecting to get off here. — John Wynnum, Tar Dust, p. 118, 1962
- Too right I will, cob. — Lance Peters, The Dirty Half-Mile, p. 175, 1979
- the penis, literally and in the figurative sense of a disagreeable man US, 1954
- The president, a fairly rough old cob, said just a little angrily, “Look, don’t be so surprised.” — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 141, 1961
- prison food, originally and especially bread UK
From a “cob loaf”. - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 38, 1996
- brown skin BARBADOS, 1998
Collected by Richard Allsopp.
▶ have a cob on; get a cob on
to be annoyed, moody or angry; to become annoyed, moody or angry UK, 1937
First recorded as Merchant Navy slang, then Royal Navy before more general usage; possibly northern dialect in origin.- I don’t know why Dixie’s got a cob on with us for. — Alan Bleasdale, Boys From the Blackstuff, 1982
- [N]o-one ever talked back to him or answered him back, which is obviously why he got such a cob on when I told him to fuck off. — Dave Courtney, Stop the Ride I Want to Get Off, p. 271, 1999
- What’s the friggin matter with you? What’s the cob on for? — Niall Griffiths, Kelly + Victor, p. 45, 2002
▶ off the cob
overly sentimental US, 1935
A play on words to achieve “corny”.- — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 236, 1948
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