Adjective

(en adjective)

Very sad; inclined to sob

*{{quote-book, year=1903, author=George Horace Lorimer, title=Old Gorgon Graham, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=It began, 'Where is my wandering boy to-night?' and by the time she was through I was feeling so mushy and sobby that I put a five instead of a one into the plate by mistake. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1917, author=Sewell Ford, title=Wilt Thou Torchy, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Every piece of furniture, from the threadbare sofa to the rickety center table, seems kind of sad and sobby . }}

(by extension) Dripping wet

*{{quote-book, year=1882, author=Carlton McCarthy, title=Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Nobody knows who he was; but no matter how wet the leaves, how sobby the twigs, no matter if there was no fire in a mile of the camp, that fellow could start one. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1902, author=Ellen Glasgow, title=The Battle Ground, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The woman served him sullenly, placing some sobby biscuits and a piece of cold bacon on his plate, and pouring out a glass of buttermilk with a vicious thrust of the pitcher. }}

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.