Etymology
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pob + -y
Pronunciation
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Adjective
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pobby (comparative more pobby, superlative most pobby)
- Like pobs; pulpy, swollen.
1888, Rudyard Kipling, “My Own True Ghost Story”, in The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales, Folio Society, published 2005, page 103:There are, in India, ghosts who take the form of fat, cold, pobby corpses, and hide in trees near the roadside till a traveller passes.