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Pobby vs Pubby - What's the difference?

pobby | pubby |

As adjectives the difference between pobby and pubby

is that pobby is like pobs; pulpy, swollen while pubby is who enjoys frequenting public houses.

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.

    • pubby

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (British, colloquial, of a person) Who enjoys frequenting public houses.
  • (of an establishment) Resembling a pub.