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Pobby vs Dobby - What's the difference?

pobby | dobby |

As an adjective pobby

is like pobs; pulpy, swollen.

As a noun dobby is

a device in some looms that allows the weaving of small, geometric patterns.

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.

    • dobby

    English

    Noun

    (dobbies)
  • A device in some looms that allows the weaving of small, geometric patterns
  • The patterns so woven, or the fabric containing the patterns