POBBIES NOUN pieces of bread softened in milk, generally given to young children or the elderly when unwell; any food of a similar consistency - 1848 Eng. dial. ETYMOLOGY alteration of pobs (pieces of bread softened in milk) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1848 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...The babby had been fed afore we set out, and th' coach moving kept it asleep, bless it's little heart. But when th' coach stopped for dinner it were awake, and crying for its pobbies. So we asked for some bread and milk, and Jennings took it first for to feed it; but it made its mouth like a square, and let it run out at each o' th' four corners...." From: Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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