GOBBIN ADJ. uncouth, lubberly ...Bk1886 Eng. dial. NOUN 1. (also GOBLIN, GUBBINS) an unintelligent, uneducated, or ignorant person; a fool, an idiot, a blockhead; a greedy, clownish person, a country fellow ...1740 Eng. dial. 2. waste material from a coal mine, especially waste material used to fill an empty space from which coal has been extracted ...1811 Eng. dial. rare 3. a receptacle for any kind of waste goods ...Bk1876 Eng. dial. 4. a spoiled child ...Bk1886 Eng. dial. ETYMOLOGY of obscure origin FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1740 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Boh th' gobbin nere consithert at hangin wuldo be coed good spwort by onybody i'ther senses, an wur enoof fort edge a finer mon's teeth thin mine..." From: A View of the Lancashire Dialect; by way of Dialogue between Tummus o'Williams, o'Margit o'Roaphs, and Meary o'Dicks, o'Tummy o'Petty's - Tim Bobbin (pseudonym)
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