Cobbed vs Robbed - What's the difference?
cobbed | robbed |
Broken, cut or trimmed into pieces of a convenient size, or formed into small blocks; cobbled.
Remaining on, or taken from the cob, (as in "cobbed corn") .
Built of mud cobbles, and sealed with mud or an artificial equivalent.
Crudely or roughly assembled; put together in an improvised way, (as in "cobbed together") .
Struck with misfortune (possibly a contraction of clobbered)
(dialect) Odd, peculiar, strange. (Comparative can be cobb'der''' and superlative can be '''cobb'dest ) .
(cob)
(rob)
(lb) To steal from, especially using force or violence.
:
(lb) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:I never robbed the soldiers of their pay.
To deprive (of).
:
*
*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
To burgle.
*2008 , National Public Radio, All Things Considered , Sept 4, 2008
*:Her house was robbed .
(lb) To commit robbery.
(lb) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 28, author=Tom Rostance, work=BBC Sport
, title= The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire until it reaches a syrupy consistency. It is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar.
As verbs the difference between cobbed and robbed
is that cobbed is (cob) while robbed is (rob).As an adjective cobbed
is broken, cut or trimmed into pieces of a convenient size, or formed into small blocks; cobbled.cobbed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Verb
(head)robbed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*rob
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) robben, from (etyl) (compare English reave). More at (l).Verb
(robb)Arsenal 2-1 Olympiakos, passage=Kevin Mirallas then robbed Bacary Sagna to run into the area and draw another save from Szczesny as the Gunners held on to lead at the break.}}