DEFINITIONS CONTINUED ADJECTIVES 3. of porridge, etc.: lumpy (dialect) 4. of the nature of a cob (horse); short and thickset, stocky (dialect) 5. crowded, confined, closely packed (dialect) 6. neat, symmetrical; snug, comfortable (dialect) 7. of wheat: short and full (dialect) CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES from cob (n.) a great man, a big man + -y ED-EDD notes COBBY stout or brisk, as being in Elisha Coles 1677 Dictionary; E-NED shows the first example as 1691 An Account of Some Errors and Defects in our English Alphabet, John Ray (for Adjective 2)
From: A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period, Henry Sweet (1879) Specimens of English Dialects - Westmoreland, Edited by the Rev. Professor Skeat Bran New Wark Epilogue, by William de Worfat
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