pobby

English

Etymology

From *pob [Term?] +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɒbi/

Adjective

pobby (comparative more pobby, superlative most pobby)

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