What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Bobby vs Pobby - What's the difference?

bobby | pobby |

As a proper noun bobby

is .

As an adjective pobby is

like pobs; pulpy, swollen.

bobby

English

Noun

(bobbies)
  • (British, slang) A police officer.
  • (British, slang) A railway signaller.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * peeler

    References

    pobby

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Like pobs; pulpy, swollen.
  • *1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘My Own True Ghost Story’, The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales , Folio Society 2005, p. 103:
  • *:There are, in India, ghosts who take the form of fat, cold, pobby corpses, and hide in trees near the roadside till a traveller passes.