Obs. [f. BOB v.1, to befool, cheat, make sport of; possibly a. OF. bobe deception, mocking (faire la bobe = faire la moue, Godef.), f. OF. bober, the source of BOB v.1] A trick, deception, befoolment. To give (any one) the bob: to mock, make a fool of, impose upon.
a. 1528. Skelton, Image Hypocr., iv. Wks. II. 444. To blinde us by bobbes.
1589. Pappe w. Hatchet (1844), 14. The vile boy hath manie bobbes, and a whole fardle of fallacies.
1589. Greene, Menaph. (Arb.), 85. He smiled in his sleeve to see howe kindely hee had given her the bobbe.
1682. New News fr. Bedlam, 39. When the Pope and his Party shall give him the bobb.
2. This runs together with the fig. use of BOB sb.3 in the sense of ‘taunt, bitter jest, scoff.’
