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Pobs vs Pobby - What's the difference?

pobs | pobby |

As a noun pobs

is (northern england) pieces of bread soaked in hot milk used as a comfort food for children during illness.

As an adjective pobby is

like pobs; pulpy, swollen.

pobs

English

Noun

(en-plural noun)
  • (northern England) Pieces of bread soaked in hot milk used as a comfort food for children during illness

    • 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.