[In sense app. due to taking bob in bobtail as an adj.: cf. BOBBISH.]
1. Cut short (as a horse’s tail); bobbed.
1709. Lond. Gaz., No. 4571/4. A Mare … with a grisled Mane and Tail full bob.
2. slang. ? Lively, ‘nice.’ Cf. BOBBISH.
1721. Cibber, Refusal, I. sp. 109. Yesterday, at Marybone, they had me all Bob as a Robin.
1864. Miss Yonge, Trial, I. 113. ‘That’s a nice girl’ … ‘Bobber than bobtail.’
