Obs. [f. COB sb.1 1.] Playing the ‘cob.’

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1599.  Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, 59. Of them all cobbing countrey chuffes which make their bellies and their bagges theyr gods are called riche cobbes.

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1608.  Withals, Dict., 391. Amongst those notable, famous, notorious, cobbing fooles.

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