pobby

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UK/ˈpɒbi/

adjective

pulpy, swollen.

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Meanings

adjectivepobby (comparative more pobby, superlative most pobby)

comparative more pobby · superlative most pobby

  1. pulpy, swollen.

    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.

    1888, Rudyard Kipling, “My Own True Ghost Story”, in The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales, Folio Society, published 2005, page 103

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
mushypulpyslushy

Origin

From *pob [Term?] + -y.

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Cite this entry
APA

pobby. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pobby

MLA

“pobby.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pobby. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pobby,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pobby.

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