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Meaning of cobbed | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. Broken, cut or trimmed into pieces of a convenient size, or formed into small blocks; cobbled.
  2. Remaining on, or taken from the cob, (as in "cobbed corn").
  3. Built of mud cobbles, and sealed with mud or an artificial equivalent.
  4. Crudely or roughly assembled; put together in an improvised way, (as in "cobbed together").
  5. Struck with misfortune (possibly a contraction of clobbered)
  6. Odd, peculiar, strange. (Comparative can be cobb'der and superlative can be cobb'dest).
    dialectal

Examples

“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.”
“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.”
“A fluidized freezing process can be used for both cut corn and cobbed corn.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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