a. dial. and slang. [Cf. BOB a., BOB v.3] Well; in good health and spirits.

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1813.  [cf. BOBBISHLY].

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1819.  Scott, in Lockhart, xliv. (1842), 394. I trust you will find me pretty bobbish.

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1839.  Dickens, Nich. Nick., lvii. ‘The cows is well, and the boys is bobbish.’

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1851.  De Quincey, Ld. Carlisle on Pope, Wks. XIII. 5. Finding himself ‘pretty bobbish’ on the morning after the memorable night in the Black Hole of Calcutta.

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  Hence Bobbishly adv. Well, fairly, briskly.

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1813.  Scott, in Lockhart, x. (Chandos), 223. The book has gone off here very bobbishly. Ibid. (1819), ibid., xlv. IV. 285. You will find me looking pretty bobbishly.

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